Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Global Warming Expensive for Oregon

    $3.3B per year according to an article in the Business Journal, much of it stemming from energy costs and health effects.

  • Updated: How to Spend $260M

    Updated: 2/19/09 1000 Friends has issued an Action Alert on this. Meanwhile, Rex Burkholder has sent a letter to the Oregon Transportation Commission (PDF, 86K) on behalf of JPACT, pushing for more collaboration and a greater allocation to metropolitan areas. Original Post: 2/17/09 As we’ve previously discussed, ODOT will get about $350M from the federal…

  • High Speed Rail Opportunity

    One of the late additions to the stimulus bill was the inclusion of $8B for high speed rail, and item that was voted into a top position on the transition team’s public web site. Assuming this doesn’t all get consumed in the NE Corridor (I think there is actually a provision capping the percentage that…

  • Stimulate the Streetcar Loop

    Stimulus Watch is a volunteer-created web site to allow citizens to rate projects that are candidates for stimulus funds. Unfortunately, anti-streetcar activists appear to be voting down the Streetcar Loop project. Please take a moment to register your support for the Loop: http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/view/14694

  • Lead By Example

    And what better example could we follow than this video from New York City (courtesy of Streetfilms), demonstrating a fantastic reclamation of public space.