Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Transit Surfer

    This is part of our series documenting the Transit Tools offered by Portland Transport. Transit Surfer™ is our cell phone web browser interface for accessing real time arrival information for TriMet and Streetcar routes (route and arrival data provided by permission of TriMet). It’s named ‘Surfer’ for those of us who ‘surf’ the transit system,…

  • Blighted Farmland

    I had a chuckle yesterday morning when reading in the O about the opposition simmering in response to Washington County’s consideration of forming an Urban Renewal district to pay for roads, sewers and other infrastructure for the North Bethany UGB expansion area. I’ve actually been party to discussions at MPAC about using urban renewal as…

  • A Small Victory for Jim

    The Daily Journal of Commerce is reporting that Metro will “crunch the numbers” for running Milwaukie Light Rail through the Central East Side instead of over a bridge into downtown. It’s a little bit hard to tell from the article, but I get the sense that this is a side exercise by Metro staff at…

  • Transit Arrivals by TXT Message

    Arrival information for 3 lines downtown split across two SMS messages, displayed on an iPhone. Update: This service is no longer supported. We recommend TriMet’s TransitTracker by Text service. This is part of our series documenting the Transit Tools offered by Portland Transport Not everyone has a web-enabled cell phone that can use our Transit…

  • Transit Board

    This post is part of a series documenting the transit tools offered by Portland Transport. Transit Board™ is a web browser interface designed to be used in a fixed location, perhaps as a kiosk or as an intranet page for a company office, allowing users to see multiple transit lines departing from a particular place…