Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Updated: Crosswalk Enforcement Action Tomorrow

    Update 11 January 2006: Over at Commissioner Sam they’re reporting that 25 citations were issued, 10 of them to bikes and peds. The Commissioner reportedly survived the exercise.

  • Tolling Technology Advances

    I believe further evidence that tolling is likely to be in our future can be found in an article in yesterday’s New York Times about advances in tolling technology and use.

  • Peak Oil Speaker Coming to Portland

    By way of News for Neighbors, we learned that Richard Heinberg will be speaking in Portland on January 20th. Richard is author of Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World. Details can be found at Living Earth.

  • The Oregon Business Plan and Transportation

    Today was the big Oregon Business Plan Summit. Besides a fun session in which Harvard’s Michael Porter analyzed the plan (more on his presentation in another post), of course I immediately went to the transportation section of the plan. Beyond the predictable priorities like the Columbia Crossing, there were some encouragingly progressive ideas:

  • Updated: A Pain the Bridge

    Update: This weekend’s closure has been postponded due to the weather, and tentatively rescheduled to next weekend For those of us who just finally got that sense of relief that two years of maintenance on the Broadway Bridge are over (or who suffered through the projects on the Hawthorne or Ross Island bridges before), here…