Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Business Journal Polls on Light Rail Future

    The Business Journal would like to know if you support Light Rail on Powell and Barbur. Let them know how you feel.

  • Needed: A Few Good Superheroes

    Our next “Sunday Parkways” event is coming up in NE Portland on Sunday and I’m looking forward to riding the 7-mile loop with my partner (who almost never cycles, but enjoyed the last event) and my step-daughter, who is back from college for the summer. But… The event is still looking for volunteers, specifically “Intersection…

  • Resilience

    Via Planetizen: Back when I was a citizen representative on MPAC, my favorite question to ask as we were starting the current update of the regional transportation and land use plans (they should be done in a year or three) was: “What can we do to make our region resilient against rising energy costs and…

  • There Must be a Pony in there Somewhere

    A few weeks ago I attended a presentation on the Open Street Map project. It’s essentially the open source equivalent of Google Maps, where community members go out with GPS units (an iPhone will do) and map key feature (streets, buildings, etc.). This is often done in “mapping parties”, community events where many people go…

  • A Full-fledged Mode?

    Via Planetizen: Should I add a ‘Broadband’ entry over in the list of modal categories? According to this article telecommuting is a mode of its own.