Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • A Class Unto Themselves

    A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure to be part of the panel providing feedback on student presentations at the PSU/City of Portland Traffic and Transporation Class (a training ground for transportation activists that yours truly is an alumnus of). Under an agreement with the class organizers, Portland Transport is the official online respository…

  • Biodiesel in Other People’s Equipment

    Here’s a dilema: you’d like to use biodiesel in all your equipment, but you don’t own it all. That leads to the question that rental equipment companies are now apparently faced with (according to an article in the Daily Journal of Commerce): what to do when your rental customer asks if he can use B99?

  • Freight to Double in 30 Years

    As reported in the Daily Journal of Commerce, a new study from the Port of Portland predicts that freight volumes will double in 30 years. Just to keep things in perspective, Metro’s projections show that even with increased truck freight, trucks will still be a single-digit percentage of vehicles on the road. Let’s not take…

  • SMART Car Seen in Wild in Portland

    The Sunday O had an article about the trials and travails of trying to import the European SMART Car into the U.S (part 2 from Monday). But meanwhile, reader Miles Hochstein has documented one here already! Can anyone tell us the story of how he got it here?

  • Transportation All Over Local Blogosphere

    The local political blogs had a transportation focus in the last couple of days: Blue Oregon has posts on Rex’ op-ed and Peter DeFazio’s skepticism about privately-owned toll roads. Meanwhile, Loaded Orygun takes on the Columbian’s coverage of polling about the Columbia River Crossing.