Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • More Biodiesel Applications

    Willamette Week is reporting (“Day Tripper“) that “Shared Route” is now operating a slightly hippy-looking biodiesel shuttle from Portland to Seattle. At the same time, the Daily Journal of Commerce reports that contractors are slowing slowly switching to biodiesel for their heavy equipment.

  • County Does the Right (Ramp) Thing

    Reported in yesterday’s O, Multnomah County will reconfigure a ramp from the Hawthorne Bridge to create a parcel on which to build a new courthouse. The ugly alternative was to grab the parcel being planned for a new office building.

  • Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: See + Be Seen

    The KBOO Bike show will discuss the City of Portland’s new See + Be Seen program to promote cyclist visibility at night. The program will also feature some of the songs submitted to the KBOO Bike Show theme song contest. 9-10AM, Wednesday, December 6th KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm Podcast here later that…

  • High Drama on Burnside Plan

    Commissioner Sam Adams has scheduled a press conference for 8:30am on Tuesday morning (12/5) to announce his recommendation for Burnside/Couch. The press conference will be across the street (Burnside) from Powells Books, by the sculpture affectionately known as “the brush”. I’m still betting on the couplet, but we’ll see…

  • Probation’s Over

    Yesterday I attended Sam Adams’ second Transportation Operations Steering group meeting. A long, involved discussion of the nitty gritty of snow and ice response. Not particularly newsworthy, except it’s good to see our public officials focused on serving the customer well. The news of the meeting is that Sam announced that Sue Kiel, who for…