Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • DeFazio on CRC: “I keep saying, make it smaller…”

    OK, that’s a paraphrase. Here’s the full quote from Willamette Week: What’s your take on the Columbia River Crossing? I have said from Day One, they should think small. And they have been thinking really big and really expensive. And I am not sure how that project moves forward and how they will fund it.…

  • A Year without a Car

    A nice guest op-ed on OregonLive.com. Living without owning a car is not a death sentence and doing it successfully is not rocket-science either.

  • Land Use and Transportation Connect at Federal Level

    I greatly enjoyed this Neil Peirce column over the weekend and am delighted to see this kind of cooperation between HUD and Transportation. By coincidence, Rep. John Oliver, the Congressman mentioned, represents the district in Massachusetts where I grew up.

  • TriMet Finalizes Service Cuts

    According to the release, the cuts are essentially the same as the proposal at the open hours, with 5 exceptions: The proposal remains the same as presented at the April public hearings, except five lines (31, 63, 89, 152, 157) were changed to respond to rider concerns about connections to jobs, schools and other services.

  • 6.7 Miles Per Day Per Person

    That’s the plan. That’s how many passenger-car miles per person we have to average in 2050 to meet the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80%. Today’s number is 18.5, up from 17.4 in 1990. That’s just one metric from the new Climate Action Plan issued Friday by the City of Portland and Multnomah…