Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • I-5 to 99W Connector open houses

    From Metro Councilor Rex Burkholder’s monthly newsletter. By the way, I think this project gets an award for abuse of a blogging platform. The project web site is based on Word Press (kudos) and features an RSS feed. But… the most recent item in the RSS feed is from Sep 2005 (lame). The I-5 to…

  • Breakdown in Communications?

    Yesterday’s O has lengthy piece on the divide between PDOT management and the road paving crews in the Bureau of Maintenance. The argument boils down to the central office folks saying (and the Auditor agreeing) that best practices (and in some cases State law) are not being followed, while the crews say they know best…

  • More Sellwood Meetings

    Aaron has a nice piece on his blog, Transportation Innovations, about the current state of the Sellwood Bridge process. Which is a nice segue into the next two meetings in the process: On Monday, November 6 the project’s Community Task Force will meet from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm at Sellwood Baptist Church, 1104 SE…

  • RTP Exercise – Challenges – Free Market

    What are some of the challenges to achieving these outcomes: Organizational Leadership is increased for business and related transit oriented development. Overall subsidization of the transit systems (including roadways) decreases by at least 50% at the state levels and users provide more representative costs. Companies locate downtown in greater number. Sprawl is minimalized and density is…

  • More Wisdom from Vancouver

    Via both the SW Trails list and Metro: Noted Canadian planning author and Vancouver BC planners to speak in Portland on “Neighbourhood Centres: The Vancouver, BC Planning Experience” Wednesday, November 8th 7:00 PM Multnomah Arts Center 7688 SW Capitol Highway, Room 34 Noted Canadian author and planner, Lance Berelowitz, will speak in Portland on Wednesday,…