Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Another iPhone Transit App

    There’s another entrant into the iPhone real-time display space: Portland Transit. The route/stop browser is not as strong as on the PDX Bus app mentioned earlier, but it does offer a GPS-based “stops near your location” feature. And this one costs $1.99… But it has a much nicer icon :-)

  • Beaten to the Punch

    I had always hoped to do an iPhone interface for Transit Surfer, using the iUi toolkit to build a web interface that mimics the native iPhone UI. But Andrew Wallace, a local developer, has beaten me to it and gone one better. He’s written a native iPhone app that uses TriMet’s web service to get…

  • Tomorrow is National Parking Day

    “Parking” as in turning parking spaces into miniature parks. Here are the Portland locations I am aware of. Let us know if there are more! SW 5th Ave between Alder and Washington, sponsored by Hotel Monaco and the Trust for Public Lands (4-8pm). Ace Hotel Portland, 1022 SW Stark St. Powell’s Books, Couch St. side…

  • “Hybrid” I-5/99W Connector

    Apparently the reality of transportation funding constraints has started to sink in. The steering committee for this project has directed staff to develop a concept that does not involve creating a new road (I assume that means expansion of existing roads and things like new signalization, etc.). This is being called the ‘hybrid’ concept: “We…

  • $8B for Roads, How Much for Transit?

    Congress has stepped forward with $8B to plug the holes in the Highway Trust Fund. Meanwhile, Senator Clinton has proposed $1.7B for public transit systems. Think it will happen?