Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • School Travel

    Final seminar of the Winter 2008 Transportation Seminar Series! Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2008 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Yizhao Yang, Assistant Professor, Planning, Public Policy & Management, University of Oregon Topic: Children’s School Travel When: Friday, March 14, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204

  • US PIRG Report on Transit

    The U.S. Public Interest Research Group recently released a report “A Better Way to Go” contrasting auto use and transit. Rather than review it here, I’ll point you to an excellent review on The Overhead Wire blog.

  • First Real Use of Clever Commute in Portland

    Last month we started a beta-test of Clever Commute on the Blue Line. Today we had our first real use: There has been a med. Emergency on the Parkrose sumner platform, it does may cause delays on the Red line that may cause blue line delays and overcrowding. On another note eastbound trains appear to…

  • Reducing the Climate Impact of the Transportation System

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2008 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Lewison Lem, Principal Consultant, PB Topic: Taming the Dragon: Reducing the Climate Impact of the Transportation System When: Friday, March 7, 2008, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204

  • CRC Point/Counter-Point

    In the last few weeks we’ve seen dueling op-eds on the Columbia River Crossing project: In support: Burkholder, Achterman, Hansen Replacing the Interstate 5 bridges over the Columbia River will be the single largest public works project in Oregon history. Getting to where we are today has taken the better part of a decade, tens…