Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Driving Your House

    Over at the BTA Blog they’re citing a study that indicates that for some income categories, transportation costs are now a larger portion of income than housing. Read and comment there.

  • Transit at GOSCON

    The Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) is here in Portland today and tomorrow and I signed up because there is a track just on transit. I just came from a session looking at development of a mult-agency, multi-modal trip planner. There’s a lot of work to do but it could be very cool when it’s…

  • Progress from Tragedy?

    Almost a year ago I had the sad occassion to write about a pedestrian fatality just around the corner from my home. It’s possible that some good may come out of this. The neighborhood association has been aggressively working with PDOT to improve safety on NW 21st and 23rd. PDOT has already re-signed the streets…

  • Tax Policy Head On

    It’s been remarked more than once recently that we seem to be repeating some of the same arguments over and over. I’m going to try to segment out some of those to highlight them in their own threads, so we can have the definitive discussion and then hopefully move on and not need to repeat…

  • An Editorial Comment on Comments

    I am seeing more frequent use of the he said/she said style of quotes in comments, e.g., A says: quote… B says: response I much prefer the style quote response The latter puts the emphasis on the ideas, the former puts a lot of weight on the authorship. As the rules make clear, my belief…