Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: Women for Bikes

    The KBOO studios just might catch fire with all the powerhouses on air for this month’s KBOO Bike Show featuring the Women for Bikes program. Guests include Alison Hill-Graves from the Community Cycling Center, Janis McDonald from the City of Portland and Barb Grover from the Bike Gallery. 9-10AM, Wednesday, December 5th KBOO FM 90.7…

  • Portland’s Cycling History

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Eric Lundgren Topic: The Wheels of Fortune: Weather Prophet Pague, Governor Geer, & Portland’s Original Network of Cycle Paths A little over a century ago Portland was building and enjoying a network of dedicated bicycle paths. For a brief and glorious half-decade,…

  • CRC: Here We Go Again

    Staff has released about 280 pages of meeting materials [here (PDF, 7MB) and here (PDF, 7MB)] in advance of Tuesday’s Task Force Meeting. Headlines from the staff analysis: Upstream replacement bridge is not recommended for further study. Light Rail provides better long term performance than Bus Rapid Transit. Supplemental Bridge underperforms a Replacement Bridge on…

  • Ballot Roundup

    Passed on by a reader, here’s a site with a roundup of all the transportation ballot measures voted up or down earlier this month. Reflect on it over your Thanksgiving Holiday. I’ll be giving thanks for our contributors and readers here at Portland Transport! — Chris

  • By Request: WES to Salem

    To head off a full-blown hijack on another thread, I’m opening up this post for discussion of extending Washington County Commuter rail down to Salem. The commuter rail line is now known as WES (Westside Express Service).