Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • How Do We Size and Allocate Freeway Capacity?

    Yesterday’s Portland Tribune, in milder terms than the FHWA, editorialized that Metro may be overlooking roads in the Regional Transportation Plan update. While Steve Clark, the Trib’s publisher, and a mover and shaker on transportation issues in the business community, would probably concede that we can’t build our way out of congestion, the tone of…

  • Legislature Looks at Promoting Biofuels

    According to Tuesday’s O, there is a bill in the legislature that would take various approaches to promoting biofuels: House Bill 2210 is big and complex, delving into state land-use laws, petroleum markets, tax law and agriculture policy. The end result, however, could be a shift away from food production at some farms to take…

  • Breathing Locally: How Toxic is Transportation? DEQ at PSU

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Gregg Lande, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality Topic: Air Quality: Toxics and Transportation When: Friday, February 9, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center

  • Breathing

    A post on Streetsblog references research suggesting that children living within 500 meters of highways have impaired lung function.

  • CTRAN Pilots B100 Bus

    Via the Daily Journal of Commerce. They’re also going to roll out B5 to their whole fleet.