Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Monster Commutes

    Not to be outdone by the Trib’s article on commuting, Sunday’s O has a piece on marathon commutes. My two cents is that if people want to do this, fine, but no rational social policy would focus on making it easy.

  • Where You Put the Cars Helps

    I’m in Vancouver, B.C. today with a group from Metro studying how they have made their regional centers work. They’ve achieved a lot more density than we have in their centers. Here’s a streetscape photo from one of their centers, a place roughly equivalent to Beaverton or Gresham. You can see that there’s a lot…

  • Carpooling as Social Networking?

    Buried deep at the bottom of the ‘web only’ murmurs at Willamette Week (yes, that’s how far I’ll go to find a blog topic) is a note that Randy White is starting a carpool matching site: carpoolcrew.com But don’t we already have a carpool matching site in our region? Indeed, we do. But Randy apparently…

  • Does Oregon Need a Vehicular Homicide Law?

    Yesterday’s O reports that the motorists involved in two incidents that resulted in the deaths of three cyclists will NOT face criminal charges. In Oregon, killing someone through negligent operation of your car is not a crime. Unlike the wildly progressive State of Idaho, Oregon does not have a Vehicular Homicide statute. A job for…

  • Bridge Analogy

    Up in Vancouver, B.C. (where I will be for the next couple of days, with a group from Metro), Gordon Price is complaining that a proposed bridge will cause land use and transportation problems throughout the region that the proponents refuse to acknowledge or analyze. Gee, I can’t think of anything like that down here.