Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • 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…

  • Announcing the “Bike Channel”

    Here at Portland Transport we’re announcing a new site today, which we’re titling “The Portland Bike Channel”. You can find it at http://bikechannel.portlandtransport.com. This is an ‘aggregated’ site. It cotains capsule summaries of the posts to Bike Portland, ORBike and Portland Transport blogs (the bike category only from the latter). The idea is to create…

  • Report from the Budget Forum: Too Much Advocacy?

    Last night a large group crowded into the Plaza Conference Room at the World Trade Center downtown to help give input on how PDOT should deal with a large gap in their budget. The attendees were certainly engaged, but perhaps a little biased. It appears that certain stakeholder groups responded very strongly to Commissioner Adams’…

  • TONIGHT: Transportation Budget Forum

    We blogged last week about being asked to be on the PDOT Budget Advisory Committee. Now Commissioner Adams is opening up the input process to the public at a forum tonight. Come and help shape PDOT’s priorities! Commissioner Sam Adams is asking the Portland community for their advice and assistance in establishing future budget priorities…