Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Sellwood Funding Coming Together?

    The Multnomah County Commission is getting read to add $19 to your auto registration fee and apparently Clackamas County will follow with $5. Coupled with the City of Portland diverting some of the increase in gas tax revenue it will see from the Legislature’s transportation package, will this be enough to get the Sellwood Bridge…

  • Barbur LRT Conversations Begin

    Metro’s new RSS Feed reports that a couple of Councilors recently met with TriMet and local electeds to tour the potential Light Rail alignment. Metro was quick to point out that no priority corridor had yet been selected from the top three corridors in the recently adopted High Capacity Transit plan (the other two being…

  • Whistling Past the Graveyard

    Columbia River Crossing project sponsors have pretty much admitted that the current project scope is unfundable, but that hasn’t stopped a stakeholder committee from agreeing on an interchange design for Marine Drive. Interchanges represent one of the major cost components for the project.

  • The Future of Portland Transportation has Two Wheels

    The public comment draft of the new, improved Bicycle Master Plan is on the streets. If you don’t want to print the full majesty of the document, you can find a hard copy at your local library. You can provide comment until November 8th. Or you can come to Planning Commission on Tuesday, October 27…

  • The Russians Are Coming!

    Hosted by the League of Women Voters… And they’ll spend an afternoon touring our transit system on October 12th: Russian Leaders Head For Portland On A Mission League of Women Voters of Portland To Guide Them From October 10 through 18, the League of Women Voters of Portland will be hosting five Russian government officials…