Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Watch Out TriMet, Here Comes Google

    From the NY Times, Google has its own transit service (registration required). Interesting that here, the business community’s reaction to congestion is to ask for billions in public investment, while in the Bay Area, the reaction is to create a new employment perk.

  • Food versus Fuel

    Via Planetizen: The Morality of Biofuels “Last September, Lester Brown, the president of the Earth Policy Institute wrote in a Washington Post opinion piece that the amount of grain needed to make enough ethanol to fill a 25-gallon SUV tank ‘would feed one person for a full year. If the United States converted its entire…

  • Get Your B20

    According to the Daily Journal of Commerce, the Jubitz Travel Center on Tuesday became the first truck stop in Oregon to sell B20 biodiesel. The retail and commercial fuel station, located east of Interstate 5 near exit 307 in Portland, has transitioned all of its retail diesel pumps to the 20 percent biodiesel blend four…

  • The Howell Line

    A picture is worth a thousand words.

  • Third Time the Charm?

    The title in the Daily Journal of Commerce says it all “Milwaukie light rail gets back on track.” For the third time in nearly 10 years, the regional government Metro has revived its plans to build a light-rail line from Portland to Milwaukie. And as part of the decision that no one will ever quite…