Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • KBOO Bike Show: Clever Cycles

    Listen to the show (mp3, 6.8M) Sara interviews the founders of Clever Cycles, a new bike shop that is importing Bakfiets and other Euro bikes.

  • WSJ Gets TOD

    Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had a nice article on Transit-Oriented Development catching on across the country. When the hard-nosed financial types start to pay attention, we’re making progress…

  • Bus-only Lanes Ineffective in Vancouver BC

    Via Planetizen: Apparently there are more than a few complications in trying to speed buses through urban traffic.

  • Operations in Operation

    Thursday morning, I was very fortunate to be traveling southbound on I-5 on my way to Wilsonville. I only had a brief delay as we rubbernecked at the tractor-trailer splayed across all the northbound lanes. Folks heading north were being detoured off of I-5 at 217 based on a predetermined ODOT contingency plan. The fact…

  • Learning to Share the Road

    I was amused to read in the latest issue of Portland Monthly that Editor-in-Chief Ted Katauskas recently got nabbed for blowing a red light – on his bike. Like many others (both drivers and cyclists) he was given the opportunity to reduce the $242 fine to a $30 fee to attend a new “Share the…