Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • New Look Exercise # 3

    See the initial post for the rules and background. Here’s the third set of outcomes. We will know the region’s economy is healthy when…

  • Take the Big Look Survey

    “Big Look”, “New Look”, are you confused yet? The Big Look is the state-wide reexamination of the land use planning system. The New Look is the regional update of our land use, transportation and investment strategies to help us plan for the 1 million or so new folks who will show up in the next…

  • New Look Exercise # 2

    See the initial post for the rules and background. Here’s the second set of outcomes. We will know our land use and transportation infrastructure is efficient when… My answer: household expenditures on transportation drop to 10% of all household expenditures (currently about 15% in our region).

  • New Look Exercises

    Friday was the infamous first New Look Regional Forum, which opened with an apology for the $30 registration fee. Hopefully that’s the last to be said of that issue. I was there for about 2/3rds of the forum (sadly I had to leave for a City Club Forum on one of my favorite subjects). I…

  • Are We at a Tipping Point?

    I couldn’t help noticing quite a convergence at the end of last week. First the National Academy of Science announces that the earth is the hottest it’s been in 400 years, and human activity is responsible. Then we have a flurry of local news: New emissions standards for cars in Oregon Randy Leonard pushes for…