Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • On Being Obsessed with Statistics

    Running a web site, I can’t help it. I wallow in the numbers. We passed 2000 comments over the life of the site today. That’s a lot of jawboning. Thanks, everybody.

  • Coining a Term

    There’s an extensive piece in the Oregonian’s In Portland section about the Burnside Plan. It analyzes the power politics behind support and opposition to the couplet plan. Watching the process of deconstructing the results of many years of planning, accompanied by lots of public outreach and input, after the fact, makes me wonder if we…

  • Traffic Just Peachy at Bridgeport Village

    Yesterday’s Oregonian has a piece (Tualatin mayor praises Bridgeport traffic flow) quoting the Mayor of Tualatin, Lou Ogden, talking in his State of the City address about the improvements to roads surrounding Bridgeport Village: “Most times of the day, you see open lanes there.” But I bet he’s never been there on a bicycle…

  • Another Crosswalk Enforcement Action

    This just came across the wire: Please plan to join Portland Police Traffic Division and Portland Transportation for another Crosswalk Enforcement Action. On Thursday, February 16 we will be conducting our second Enforcement Action of 2006 at the marked crossing of SW Sam Jackson Park Rd. & SW US Veterans Hospital Rd. on the OHSU…

  • Candidate Questionnaire

    Over on the There Oughta be a Law thread, it’s been suggested that Portland Transport might do a candidate questionnaire for the upcoming gubernatorial primaries. What questions would you want to ask aspiring candidates of both parties about transportation?