Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • KBOO Bike Show needs bike songs

    Ayleen passes along the following call for help: Hey Folks, We’re in need of bike songs. We always end the show with a bike song, but the ones we have are getting a little stale after so many years. We’ve got the Ken Southerland mix from Bikesummer we know all those. If you have songs,…

  • Advising PDOT

    As I’ve mentioned before, this year I’m sitting on PDOT’s budget advisory committee. We met last week to digest the results of the outreach and to review staff’s preliminary recommendations on cuts. The meeting opened with a review of the public outreach. There was a lot of discussion about whether there was a bias from…

  • Virtual Busways on Toll Lanes?

    Dave Brook forwarded this interesting piece from the San Fancisco Chronicle on merging tolls with bus rapid transit. While the idea is up for consideration in the Bay Area, it apparently is going to be tried in Houston. The basic idea is to put toll lanes alongside regular lanes, and control usage of the toll…

  • PortlandCycling.net Added to Bike Channel

    Carlo has just posted some news items to his site, so it’s a good time to announce that the RSS feed from his PortlandCycling.net site has been added to Portland Transport’s Portland Bike Channel site and mega-RSS feed

  • Bridge Work Rained Out… Again

    The weekend closure of the Burnside Bridge to change lane marking for the upcoming maintence work is rained out for the second weekend in a row. The plan is now for next weekend…