Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Updates to the Bike Channel

    Based on feedback from users, we’ve changed the background on the Portland Bike Channel. It’s now a collage (updated daily) from Jonathan’s photos. It does not rotate, and content above it is no longer semi-transparent. Clearly this was a case of a cool programming feature not being useful to real users :-) We’ve also added…

  • From our Readers

    Cate points us to an editorial she heard on KINK about crosswalk safety. And Ron wants to remind us of the UN-HABITAT World Urban Forum in Vancouver, BC: http://www.wuf3-fum3.ca/ http://www.unhabitat.org/wuf/2006/default.asp http://www.unhabitat.org/

  • Standing Room Only

    Portland Streetcar does a ridership sample each quarter. We were all a bit overwhelmed when the summer counts came back and said we had 7800 riders each weekday. Hold on to that hanger strap, the fall (Sep-Nov) counts are in and we’re at 9,000 weekday riders. Saturday ridership is down slightly (6,600 down from 7,600…

  • Featured Class Presentation: Lloyd District Development and Transportation

    We’ve had a chance to summarize presentations from the PSU/PDOT Traffic and Transportation for each of the last two weeks. Now we’d like to feature one presentation that we found particularly interesting, something we’d like to do each semester. Marcia Carlson (PDF 2.5M) has certainly identied quite an opportunity: over the next decade, many surface…

  • For the Geeks: How We Did It – The Portland Bike Channel

    If you’re not into the details of blogging, or web site programming, you can probably skip right now to the next post. But for the geeks, here’s a summary of how we created the Portland Bike Channel site that we launched yesterday. I’m writing about this because I think it’s an interesting story how how…