Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Funding the Backlog?

    Over at the Oregonian’s City Hall blog, they’re reporting that Sam Adams is making a pitch to his City Council colleagues to use part of the City of Portland’s $19M in one-time money to work some of the backlog in transportation maintenance projects. The Friday Trib narrowed in on one project on the list, maintenance…

  • Land, Sea and Air

    The opening of the Gibbs extension was an interesting juxtaposition between land transportation (Streetcar), aerial (the tram landing pictured here) and water (the barge being built just to the left of the tram landing at the Zidell plant).

  • Time to Celebrate! (Gibbs)

    I’ll be heading out the door momentarily to get downtown for the ceremonial first train and celebration of the opening of the Portland Streetcar extension to Gibbs St. Join us at 11am today for the official ceremonies (read speeches) at Gibbs and Moody (below the Tram landing tower). Or come back to the same location…

  • Imitation is the Sincerest Form…

    On Ramp is reporting on the formation of a “a transportation coalition led by 249 Puget Sound-area employers” that is modelled on our own LLoyd TMA, one of the first and most successful Transportation Management Associations in our region.

  • Security Dollars for Transit

    The Portland Business Journal is reporting that Homeland Security has awarded $800K to TriMet and $150K to C-Tran for security. Anyone from TriMet reading out there who can tell us how it will get spent?