Author: Chris Smith

  • High Capacity Transit in Clark County? Oh My!

    According to the Daily Journal of Commerce, a committee is looking at long term plans for where high capacity transit would make sense in Clark County. Through a series of public meetings, the Southwest Washington Regional Transportation Council will work with a steering committee of policymakers and a citizens’ advisory task force to identify the…

  • Ron Buel on CRC

    Ron (who has a storied history of civic involvement in Portland, including being a leader in Riverfront for People) has a nice opinion piece yesterday’s O about changing the direction of the Columbia River Crossing project.

  • From Policy to Practice: Clearing Accidents

    A few months ago I wrote about discussion initiated in Commissioner Adams’ Transportation Operations Steering Committee to clear non-injury accidents from our freeways faster as one relatively inexpensive way to reduce congestion. Yesterday in the Trib we read about initial implementation steps for this policy. That’s a pretty fast translation of policy to action in…

  • Donald Shoup Interview on Curb Parking

    This video interview is from Streetsblog. It’s a nice summary of Shoup’s theses in six minutes.

  • The Eddington Report

    The “Stern Report”, a policy document providing advice to the British government on climate change has gotten a fair amount of notice in the press lately. A very similar document published in January, the Eddington Report, has not drawn as much attention, but as it focuses on transportation policy, should be very interesting to readers…