Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: Pedalpalooza and the Carfree Cities Conference

    There is so much fun bike action about to explode in Portland! One some Pedalpalooza days there are 17 events from which to choose. Add the Cycle Seen art show, Toward Carfree Cities, Cirque du Cycling and Sunday Parkways to the mix and it gets a little awesomely ridiculous! But before you get too overwhelmed…

  • Imagine 82nd

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2008 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: InSight Visioning and Planning, PSU MURP Workshop Project team Topic: Imagine 82nd InSight, a team of graduate students in PSU’s Master of Urban and Regional Planning program, will present their Planning Workshop project entitled “Imagine 82nd.” The project engaged residents, businesses, property…

  • Trouble with One Wheel on Four Wheels?

    I’ve gotten word from the unicycle community (yes, Portland has a unicycle community) that TriMet is apparently cracking down on allowing folks to take their one-wheeled rides onto buses with them. Unicycle riders, can you confirm? Anyone from TriMet care to enlighten us on what office policy is?

  • Three Metro Councilors Suggest Tolling CRC FIRST

    The Oregonian is reporting that that Metro Councilors Liberty, Collette and Hosticka are set to introduce a resolution calling for tolling the I-5 Columbia Crossing before before building a new bridge. “That would give us the information we don’t have right now, which is how would people react to having to pay for the project?”…

  • Sign of Times to Come?

    OK, so the photo is from the last price spike (hat tip to the reader who sent it to me then). But the O is reporting that gas prices are up 36 cents in the last month.