Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Transportation History Blogged

    Scott Cohen has started a new blog on the history of transportation in Portland. Welcome to the blogosphere, Scott. Check it out.

  • Not Your Father’s RTP … or … Losing LOS

    A few months ago I asked JPACT chair Rex Burkholder “I understand the idea behind an outcomes-based RTP process, but when is the process going to feel different?” As of this week’s TPAC workshop reviewing the draft of Chapter 1 (goals, objectives, policies) [PDF, 887K] it definitely feels different. From the intro memo, here are…

  • Streetcar Makes USA Today

    We’ve gone mass media. And they got the image wrong :-)

  • A Milestone

    I’ve stopped commenting as the user counter breaks through various levels here at Portland Transport, but I wanted to pause for a moment and reflect on one less visible milestone. This is post # 1001. The rest of you have added just shy of 8000 comments to those 1000 posts.

  • Calendar in Jeopardy

    At the beginning of the month, we launched our own transportation policy meeting calendar, in response to feedback from our reader survey that it was the most beneficial of several potential extensions to the site. However, when we launched it, we also made it clear that it had to be a group project, spreading the…