Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Updated: Pedestrian Safety Hits Close to Home

    Updated 1:20PM February 1st: KATU is reporting that Sara Cogan, 66, died from her injuries. Walking the dog last night, my partner and I came across the intersection of NW 23rd and Quimby (one block from our home) taped off with crime scene tape and a number of police vehicles in the area. Watching the…

  • KBOO Bike Show: The TriMet Squeeze

    Have you heard about the cyclist who blocked a TriMet bus and was punched by a rider who was let off the bus? Probably you have because it was front page news in the Oregonian. Well, the issue has really blown up. People have all sorts of opinions on the incident, but now they are…

  • Health and Urban Design: Environment over Attitude

    Last Thursday, I had a chance to catch Dr. Lawrence Frank as part of the Oregon Environmental Council’s Healthy Environment Forum Series. Dr. Frank’s work focuses on finding relationships between various factors in the built environment and health outcomes.

  • Drive Less/Save More

    We’ve featured pieces on efforts in the center of the region to reduce auto reliance. Now there’s a program aimed more towards the edges. A new public information campaign sponsored by Metro, TriMet and others is about to launch. It’s called “Drive Less/Save More”. This will be a sustained media effort to get out the…

  • Taking the Scalpel to PDOT

    The 3rd meeting of PDOT’s budget advisory committee was held last Friday. The task is to take $8.3M out of PDOT’s budget due to declining buying power of the gas tax and re-distributions of population. It feels like we’re pretty close to getting there, without huge impacts on services. The largest single item is $4.3M…