Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Complete Streets Get Some Respect

    Via Planetizen: “The concept of ‘complete streets’ — with bike lanes, sidewalks and room for mass transit — has attracted a diverse national alliance of supporters, including advocates for senior citizens and the disabled.” “Fourteen states, six counties, 10 regional governments and 52 cities have complete streets policies, according to the National Complete Streets Coalition.…

  • Documenting our Transit Tools

    Just a heads up that this week you’re going to see some posts that are intended to hang around as documentation for our various transit tools. They’ll be written less in a ‘current’ tense and more in an archival kind of way.

  • LOPAC Divided

    Update: 8/9/07 Here’s the actual recommendation document (PDF, 490K). Original Post: 7/12/07 According to coverage in the Daily Journal of Commerce the Lake Oswego Transit Alternatives Analysis Project Advisory Committee (LOPAC in Metro acronym-ese) is divided on the mode choice. The area subcommittees for the north and south segments favor Streetcar while the segment in…

  • More Green Streets

    The City of Portland is ramping up its efforts to make our streets more environmentally friendly. From the Daily Journal of Commerce: A policy approved by Portland City Council in April makes green street features like curb extensions, bioswales and stormwater planter systems a required part of all city-funded infrastructure projects in the public right-of-way.

  • Minneapolis Collapse the Result of Anti-tax Activism?

    At least one commentator thinks so: via Planetizen.