Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • National Transportation Expert Michael Replogle at Metro Monday

    Join national transportation expert Michael Replogle for a discussion: Replogle is a nationally renowned civil engineer and transportation modeling expert with Environmental Defense, a national nonprofit organization that since 1967, has linked science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society’s most urgent environmental problems. Replogle manages Environmental Defense’s initiatives to…

  • Transit’s Dirty Little Secret?

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Brian Taylor, Professor of Urban Planning and Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UCLA Topic: Transit’s Dirty Little Secret: Analyzing Patterns of Transit Use When: Friday, November 16, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center

  • Easier-to-find Parking will Reduce Congestion?

    We’ll see. Just in time for the holiday shopping season, an electronic system will relay information about parking availability in three downtown Smart Park garages to a sign at the foot of the Morrison Bridge. Details in the Daily Journal of Commerce.

  • Watch Our Money Burn Up

    The Sightline Institute has created a little widget that shows us the spending in our state on gas and oil. I thought about putting it in the sidebar for this site, but decided it would be a little busy after the novelty wears off. If you’d like your own copy, you can get it here.…

  • Reading the Tea Leaves

    Proposition 1 up in Puget Sound, with $30B in transit funding and $16B in lane-miles for roads, went down Tuesday. There seem to be a variety of theories on why: Voters were just saying “NO” to new taxes. Voters wanted to pick and choose projects, rather than buy into a bundle. Perhaps most intriguing, the…