Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger: Interstate and Greeley

    Tip of the Hat to Commissioner Sam Adams who closed the right turn from Interstate onto Greeley after the second serious car/bike crash in two weeks. Wag of the Finger to the Portland Police Bureau who declined to issue a citation or conduct an investigation despite eyewitness accounts that would suggest the possibility of erratic…

  • Better Parking

    If there is such a thing :-) The PSU Quarterly Journal on Urban Development (I got it by e-mail, I have not yet found a link) has an interesting article on underground, multi-block parking development (PDF, 1.9M). The virtues of this form of parking are: It’s underground and out of sight. It’s more efficient from…

  • Transit is Fun

    A counterpoint to all the crime discussion… An opinion piece in the Charlotte Observer makes a good case for one of the ways transit enhances livability: it makes experiencing cities easy and fun.

  • Gresham Police to Ride MAX

    I don’t generally post over the weekend, but as this story keeps evolving… As reported in the Oregonian, Mayor Shane Bemis of Gresham will detail officers from his city’s police force to ride MAX. While a TriMet spokesperson is quoted as welcoming the move, the Mayor cites “TriMet’s failure to realize they have issues.” In…

  • Higher Bar for Sustainable Biofuels

    The Daily Journal of Commerce reports on an analysis by the Oregon Environmental Council that suggests that whether biofuels improve sustainability is a function of their full lifecycle impacts, including the source of feedstock biomass.