Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • 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.…

  • Hey, it Could Have Been Worse

    I got a kick out of the article in yesterday’s O about a spat between the parking folks at PDOT and the vendor who manages all those paystations downtown. Apparently some (percentage TBD) of the machines accepted money on Monday, which was a holiday with no parking enforcement. While I quite agree that the City…

  • Copyright and a Milestone

    As we wind down toward the end of the year, a pause for a moment of introspection seems appropriate. First, unless we have a server meltdown, we’ll have our 25,000th visitor today. That’s just under a month since we hit 20,000, so thanks to our loyal readers who keep coming back to see what we’re…

  • Transit Surfer goes Production and New Interface Added

    Thanks to all the folks who’ve been beta-testing our Transit Surfer tool. We’re releasing the official version 1.0 today, and it now has its own domain name: tsrf.us. There are currently two flavors: a wireless PDA interface (the one that’s been in beta test). It’s available now at http://tsrf.us/pda. The new interface is for desktop…