Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Corruption-Free Paystations

    After the Federal conviction related to Portland’s last paystation contract, the City has embarked on a new procurement for paystations, and now has four different models from two manufacturers installed in the vicinity of SW 3rd and Salmon. They’d love to have you try them and give feedback.

  • Ever Wanted to Drive a MAX Train?

    I once got to drive a Streetcar on a test track in the Czech Republic. If you’d like to take a spin on the MAX test track at Ruby Junction, TriMet is running a sweepstakes…

  • LOS Redux

    Last month, Brian penned an excellent post about California’s switch of performance measures. This podcast provides a narrative of how that came about, and how poisonous vehicle level of service (LOS) was as a performance standard. Not to be missed.

  • KBOO Bike Show: Biking Past 50

     Listen to the show (mp3, 26.9MB) Alon and Christopher talk with Ann Morrow, Jerry Smith and S. Brian Willson about the joys and challenges of riding past age fifty. Ann is the president of the Portland Wheelman Touring Club and is host of the cable TV show Cycology Today (viewed on NWbicyclesafetycouncil.org.) Jerry is also an active member…

  • The Dark Side of Autonomous Vehicles?

    Readers of this blog will know that I have a generally optimistic view of driverless cars, believing that a computer is likely to avoid many human frailties and generally reduce the number of crashes. My viewpoint got a jolt this week. The technologist half of my brain has been enjoying the New Relic Future Talk…