Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Biofuels: Mega Production or “community-scale”

    The Daily Journal of Commerce explores what scale of production is appropriate and/or likely to succeed. Should our biofuels come from Oregon or the Midwest?

  • Looking for a Writer

    There’s a four-part series on the Wired blog about BRT vs. rail (see http://www.planetizen.com/node/27301). I’d love to have someone read it, summarize it, and suggest what it means for this region. I’m afraid I have no bandwidth to do it. Anyone care to do a guest post?

  • Open TPAC Seats

    There are three citizen representative seats open on Metro’s Transportation Policy Alternatives Committee. If you want to have an impact on regional transportation policy, this is a great opportunity to learn the nitty-gritty and express the values of the community to the technocrats: Dear Interested Community Members: The Transportation Policy Alternatives Committee (TPAC) has three…

  • Sellwood Bridge Stays in the News

    The Trib begins looking at the interchange designs on either side of the river, while the Business Journal focuses on funding (unfortunately the full version of the online article requires a subscription – I read the old media version at the library). The speculation is that we may get the Feds to cough up half…

  • Surviving $100-a-barrel Oil

    The Wall Street Journal thinks we could be just fine. So much for market incentives to develop alternatives.