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Burnside Couplet Alternatives Defined to Dismay of SAC Members
Yesterday afternoon Commissioner Sam Adams (by speakerphone, from Washington, DC, where he was lobbying for transportation funds) convened the Burnside Stakeholders Advisory Committee. The purpose of the meeting was to review two alternative options to the couplet design that will be modeled for their traffic impacts. The first alternative is the “5-4-3” option, since it…
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Dueling Op-eds
It would seem our contributors don’t always agree :-) Last week, Scott Bricker had an op-ed piece in the Oregonian questioning whether the benefits suggested in the “Cost of Congestion” study were worth the cost. Yesterday brought another op-ed in the O, this one from another contributor, Metro Councilor Rex Burkholder. Rex counters that while…
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Bike to Work Day Event
May is National Bike Month and Portland Transportation Options wants to celebrate the committed bike commuter and those who might be curious about bike commuting! Options is hosting a Bike to Work Day event on Wednesday, May 17, at the Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown Portland. The event will be held from 7:30 to 9:00…
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Envisioning Oregon
Last Saturday my partner and I headed down to Corvallis for the “Envision Oregon” meeting sponsored by 1000 Friends, CLF, the Bus Project and a host of other organizations. It’s the beginning of a process to re-vision what we want for our state and how our land use system can be structured to get us…
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Perplexed Cyclist
Spring brings repaving, and repaving on NW 18th and 19th in my neighborhood means the permanent installation of sharrows! We got temporary markers last fall, but now the real things are going in. Yeah! But this one has me confused. This is NW 18th northbound just before Everett St. (sorry for the cell-phone quality photo).…