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Wine Train?
According to Thursday’s Oregonian, a group of business and elected leaders in Yamhill County would like to run a train from Portland through the wine country, perhaps terminating at the Spirit Mountain casino. Just a few obstacles: buying set of self-propelled rail cars that ODOT is putting up for bid and $20M to make repairs…
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Parking
The NW Parking Association is having their 1st Annual Conference July 30-August 1 in Vancouver USA. Besides the Poker and Golf there are actually a few interesting-looking sessions including information systems (can you tell how many cars are parked in your structure?) and reducing parking demand by using car-sharing (don’t tell Sam Adams, he’ll try…
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Council Throws Wet Blanket on Flexcar
City Council moved forward yesterday on what this activist testified was a “penny-wise and pound-foolish” policy to seek full cost recovery for metered parking spaces from car-sharing companies (of which we have exactly one in Portland at the moment: Flexcar). The move will also cap the number of parking spaces in meter districts and limits…
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Cascadia Scorecard Released
The Sightline Institute released their 2006 Cascadia Report Card yesterday. This is the third in their series of annual report cards on the health of our greater region (an area containing watersheds in parts of Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia and Alaska). While there is no transportation grade per se, the report…
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Is Goal 1 Obsolete?
Statewide Planning Goal # 1: To develop a citizen involvement program that insures the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process. [read the rest of the goal text here (PDF, 12K)] There seems to be a difference of opinion about what this means in the context of the “Big…