Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Metro Responds to Trib

    Metro Council President David Bragdon and several Councilors had an op-ed in Friday’s Trib with their response to criticism about the approach to the Regional Transportation Plan update.

  • Columbia River Crossing: Game On!

    We’ve been debating The Columbia River Crossing here for most of the last year. Now there’s finally an opportunity to take action. Two key meetings are coming up: Thursday, February 22nd – Metro Council hearing at 2pm (Metro Regional Center, 600 NE Grand, Portland) Tuesday, February 27th – Columbia River Crossing Task Force meeting 4-8pm…

  • Take your Grandparents for a Walk

    Passed on by a reader: article says walkable communities may make for healthier elders.

  • Easier Streetcar Tickets

    We’ve discussed before that making the fare system for Streetcar easy to use is a challenge. Our fareboxes are somewhat unreliable and are difficult to use. We hope to acquire much better fareboxes when we make the leap across the river. However, until then, we’d at least like to make them easier to understand. Local…

  • Staff Cops to $6B Price Tag for CRC

    Jim Redden has a piece in the Trib this morning indicating that by the time you roll in all the interchange improvements, we may well be looking at $6B for the Columbia River Crossing. It’s kind of ironic that the entire gap in funding for the Regional Transportation Plan is $6B, and we’re looking at…