Author: Chris Smith

  • Class of 2015

    A personal highlight for me each year is the opportunity to serve on the panel reviewing presentations for the PSU/PBOT Traffic and Transportation Class. I look forward to seeing the work of each new crop of advocates and this year is no exception! Debra Monzon (PDF 1M) is looking for ways to make Thorburn Street…

  • Dynamically Priced Parking = Free WiFi?

    A Strong Towns podcast this week features an interview with Donald Shoup in which he suggests his usual approach to selling neighborhoods and business districts on metered parking: share the revenue! But he goes on to suggest another benefit. He describes one district in which dynamic pricing was communicated to meters via WiFi. Since the…

  • KBOO Bike Show: Cyclocross Replayed

    This month we rebroadcast this episode from 2014.

  • KBOO Bike Show: Disaster!

     Listen to the show (mp3, 27.4MB) Tori and Jocelyn talk with disaster preparedness professional Joe Partridge about “the big one” and other disasters we should be prepared for. Will cargo bikes rescue us? Mike Cobb describes the Disaster Relief Trials.

  • Completing my Personal “Tilikum Grand Slam”

    I’ll admit I had a head start. I enjoyed preview rides on both MAX and Streetcar. During yesterday’s opening festivities, I had the chance to cross both on MAX and on foot. And today I cycled east across our wonderful new bridge, and then made the return journey with my bike on the front of a…