Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Sustainable Advantage: Sort of

    It seems that the leaders of the Oregon Business Plan took Harvard Professor Michael Porter’s advice from last year to heart: they have provided an overarching focus for the Business Plan: Sustainability. The ‘play book‘ (PDF, 869K), released in advance of Thursday’s Business Plan Summit, sets this out on the first page: As last year’s…

  • Alternative Forum on the Columbia Crossing

    The Coalition for a Livable Future is holding a forum on the CRC Thursday evening. Yours truly will be one of the panelists. Here’s the complete skinny: You may have read in the paper recently that the options being studied by the Columbia River Crossing (CRC) Project – a transportation project focusing on the 5-mile…

  • Carbon Tax Discussion at Blue Oregon

    Leslie Carlson has an interesting post about carbon taxes over at Blue Oregon. Please read and comment there.

  • New Year: New Layout, New Calendar

    We have a few changes with the New Year. The home page layout has been altered to create an additional sidebar on the left, in which we are testing Google Ads as a potential tool to help our financial sustainability strategy. But more importantly, we’ve introduced a calendar of transportation meetings, the top requested feature…

  • Outsourcing Our Political Will

    A hat tip to the reader who forwarded this article in Mother Jones about toll roads. The article focuses on the privatization of the Indiana Tollway: The deal to privatize the Toll Road had been almost a year in the making. Proponents celebrated it as a no-pain, all-gain way to off-load maintenance expenses and mobilize…