Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Peek into the Future

    ITS Oregon, the local chapter of the Intelligent Transportation Society has a demonstration of Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) coming up. Here’s the early info. Unfortunately, I have two conflicting meetings that day. It would be great if a member of the Portland Transport community could be there and send back a report. What: High-tech Future…

  • Public Bicycle Systems

    Dave Brook has a nice roundup of public bicycle systems on his carsharing blog. Along the same lines, Ron Richings has observations from his travels over on the SHIFT list. He notes that bike sharing systems have a big impact on bicycle mode share. I understand Commissioner Adams’ office has an RFP out for a…

  • Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: Riding Fast

    This month on the KBOO Bike Show, hosts Tori and Ayleen will interview bike racers to discuss the sportier side of bike culture. Is Lycra really necessary? What’s the attraction to riding to fast? 9-10AM, Wednesday, July 4th KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm Podcast here later that day

  • TriMet Adopts Budget

    TriMet has adopted a $741M budget for FY2008. In addition to a 5 cent fare increase and continuing construction of the Green Line and Washington County Commuter Rail, here are a few more highlights: $1.7 million to begin replacing the original 20-year old Ticket Vending Machines located along Eastside MAX line with debit/credit-card only machines.…

  • A Woman Who Speaks Her Mind

    I was very impressed with Gail Achterman’s remarks at the City Club presentation on Friday. [Not that I was not impressed with your remarks too, Rex, but I’ve heard them before :-)] You can download the full program (MP3, 21.1M) from City Club’s web site for a few weeks. Gail says what she believes. Here…