Author: Chris Smith

  • Mark Your Calendars – But We Still Need a Place

    We have a time and date for the first ever Portland Transport real-world gathering: 6pm on Thursday, December 14th. It was the first choice in the survey, and the Columbia Crossing folks have confirmed their availability. But we don’t have a venue yet. The Lucky Lab in SE was the number one choice, but it’s…

  • Wonders of Walking

    A brown bag presentation tomorrow and Wednesday Join Judy Heller and Experience “The Wonders of Walking” Judy Heller knows walking! As one of the region’s foremost experts on walking Heller has trained and motivated people from all walks of life to participate in events, relays, and even marathons. Heller was chosen as the national coach…

  • Rubber Sidewalks Follow-up

    I did make it out to Gresham last Tuesday to catch the presentation on Rubber Sidewalks. In the small world department, it turns out that the VP of the company giving the presentation is the brother of one of my fellow neighborhood activists in NW (which I didn’t discover until several days after the presentation).…

  • Transportation on the Real Estate Page

    The O doesn’t put their real estate section online, so I don’t have a link, but the cover of the section on Sunday was about people buying homes based on their access to transportation – alternative transportation. It included both homes on transit lines AND with bicycle access. Apparently the Springwater has become quite the…

  • Dilapidated?

    That’s what Friday’s Trib called Union Station. Apparently our “Go By Train” landmark is in need of $40-50M of work. PDC owns the station, and apparently there is some discussion of getting it into an urban renewal district when the downtown districts are reconfigured in a few years. The assumed eventual replacement of the Post…