Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Traffic Safety Activism as Memorial

    Recently received: Next Thursday, Feb.15th 4:30-7:00, come demonstrate your love for your bike and your fellow cyclists! We will be gathering at 26th and Stark Street, where Nick lost his life to a speeding motorist. Make a face to face statement to motorists about traffic safety. We’ll have cyclists gather on both sides of the…

  • Carbon Cap Passes Local Muster

    Readers of the Portland Business Journal responded positively (70%) to a poll about capping C02 emissions.

  • Hope for Benzene Reductions

    Saturday’s O reports that the EPA is going to regulate benzene content of gasoline in the NW (nationwide, actually). Good news! Thank you Ron Wyden. But can we hold our breath until 2015?

  • Placemaking on the Transit Mall

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Bob Hastings, TriMet and Brian McCarter, ZGF Architects Topic: The Portland Mall Revitalization: Designing a Great Street When: Friday, February 16, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center

  • Biofuels Expert Visits Portland

    Libby Tucker interviews Josh Tickell, author of “From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank,” in the Daily Journal of Commerce. Just a taste: Tucker on the food vs. fuel debate about use of farmland: What are we going to do when it’s food versus fuel? The United States has 60 million acres of fallow cropland…