Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • KBOO Bike Show: Safer Streets

    Special guests, Bill Sinnot, Commander of the Portland Police traffic divison and Greg Raisman, PDOT`s traffic safety specialist discuss projects, programs and enforcement actions they are working on to make the streets safer for cyclists.

  • Making Sausage … and Budgets

    I no longer sit on TPAC, but I still get the agenda packet notices (anyone can request them). I want to call attention to a process that gets started at this Friday’s meeting that perhaps does not get the public attention that it should. One of the things our region does very well is speak…

  • Portland Transport Now Hosting KBOO Bike Show Podcast and Archive

    A few weeks ago I posted a bit of rant about the fact that our competitor for Platinum biking status – Davis, CA – podcasted their bike talk show, while the Portland equivalent, on KBOO, disappeared into the ether after the monthly broadcast. Well, no more! KBOO Bike Show hosts Ayleen Crotty and Sara Stout…

  • Tolling in the New Year

    Today’s Tribune editorializes favorably on tolling as a funding strategy as an alternative to growing congestion…

  • Transit Surfer Catches Cell Phone Wave

    We have our first release of a WAP/WML (cell phone) interface for the Surfer. Go to: http://tsrf.us/wap [If you follow the link in a regular web browser, you’re not likely to get anything meaningful.] Note that it’s not 100% complete. We don’t have menus to select lines or stops, you MUST enter a stop number.…