Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Sidewalk (Dis)Order

    Aggressive panhandling and other ‘sidewalk fear-factor behaviors’ have been brought up on this site before. Gordon Price just posted an interesting perspective on the experience in Vancouver on his Price Tags blog. Here’s an excerpt: What was happening in the West End was a failure of government to maintain social order. And that could happen…

  • BBC Features Portland Transportation

    Update: 29 August 2006 The videos are now available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvJlq-EEufE. Original Post: 16 August 2006 The BBC program Newsnight has a long segment on alternative transportation in Portland. There is a video stream at http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/od/bbc2/nb/rm/video/newsnight_nb.ram, but since that appears to be a generic address, I’m not sure how long it with have…

  • Your Opinion or Observation in this Space

    Yours truly will be doing some traveling over the next few weeks, including a Metro-sponsored trip up to Vancouver, B.C., to see not the central city (that’s been so done already), but the suburbs! While I’m sure my travels will provide things for me to write about here, I’m also looking for some guest posts…

  • Bike Master Plan Update Kickoff Event Tonight

    At Southeast Uplift: Making Portland a World Class Bicycling City: Tuesday, August 29th, 6:30 p.m., Southeast Uplift How has the City and its citizens made Portland the #1 U.S. city for bicycling? How can we join Amsterdam and Copenhagen as a world-class bicycling city? What do you like about bicycling in Portland? What would you…

  • The Higher Mode

    We don’t often talk about transportation by air, but the Daily Business Journal had an interview late last week with Mary Maxwell, the Director of Aviation at the Port of Portland. It was a good reminder of the importance of aviation to the economy in our region. There’s some discussion of the Port’s Hillsboro Airport.…