Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • KBOO Bike Show: Keeping Portland Weird

    Listen to the show (mp3, 7.0M) Keeping Portland Weird – by bike. We talk with tall bike builder Tiago Denczuk and Jacque Authier, the mastermind behind the Sexy Cyclists ride who has big dreams of getting more women over 40 back on their bikes.

  • Just for Fun

    Passed on by a reader, originally found here (under Creative Commons license):

  • Fear of Toll Blowback?

    We remarked on Ron Sims’ comments on tolling Seattle’s Freeways. Turns out there’s a little more to the story. Apparently Sims commissioned a study (PDF, 1.1M) from Booz Allen Hamilton, that nicely makes the case. But then he apparently tried to sit on it until after the November election, out of concern that it might…

  • Aspirations

    At last Thursday’s JPACT meeting, ODOT and TriMet presented their thinking about projects for the RTP update (PDF, 559K). ODOT expects about $710M to be available for highway modernization projects (in the period from 2011 through 2035) and sorted out their priorities for those funds. They also presented ‘Ilustrative’ and ‘Refinement’ project lists for what…

  • SMF Anyone?

    That’s Street Maintenance Fee. You can’t say Sam Adams doesn’t have courage. He’s looking at ways to close Portland’s street maintenance backlog, and find some dollars for safety programs. The ultimate proposal will likely be a combination of two or three funding mechanisms, possibly including a local gas tax and/or a Street Maintenance Fee (a…