Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • For the Real Addicts

    Because you asked for it. One of our readers recently requested an RSS feed of the comments from Portland Transport posts. So you real addicts are never out of touch: http://feeds.portlandtransport.com/PortlandTransportComments Enjoy.

  • Further Musings on the Transit Mall

    So I’ve been musing about the Transit Mall over the weekend, reading all the comments on the prior posts, and have a few questions turning over in my mind, which I’d like to throw out to readers. But first, I want to thank Jim Karlock. While I generally don’t agree with Jim’s take on transportation,…

  • I Couldn’t Agree More

    Check it out. Good find, Jonathan.

  • Mall Discontent III: Return of TriMet

    Update: Saturday: TriMet was kind enough to pass along a link to the APTA peer review report (PDF, 974K). I’ve read it, and the key message seems to be “nobody’s done this before, but you seem to have thought out what you were doing”. In addition there are plenty of constructive suggestions about how to…

  • Cincinnati Heart Portland

    Apparently we have Portland Transport readers all over, including John Schneider, who wrote this piece for a weekly in Cincinnati extolling Portland’s transportation virtues. John is suggesting Cincinnati could emulate our transit-friendly downtown, and he points out examples including our Safeway, topped by condos and served by Streetcar.