Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • A Milestone and a Crossroads

    Sometime early this morning (I didn’t stay up to watch), we passed 20,000 visitors since Portland Transport was launched this summer. Here are a few other statistics to mark this occassion…

  • Bookshelf: In the Bubble

    A while back, I referenced some interviews with John Thackara, author of In the Bubble. The focus of the book is the importance of design in a world as complex as ours. He has an interesting perspective on the problems of our world, perhaps best illustrated by the chapter titles…

  • The Political Wisdom of Gordon Price

    When Gordon Price spoke at the PSU Traffic and Transportation Class a few weeks ago, he illustrated some fundamental problems with the way society thinks about its transportation choices. Here are three illustrations. Where does the money go? What’s the largest capital investment in transportation we make as a society? I ventured that it was…

  • Crosswalks of the Netherlands

    You knew it was coming. My obsession with crosswalks had to include some snaps of pedestrian crossings in the Netherlands. So here they are…

  • Toll Roads Redux

    The banner story in today’s Oregonian is “Detour looms on how we pay for roads“. Writer James Mayer catalogs the decline in gas tax buying power and an accompanying chart shows three potential toll roads: Newberg-Dundee bypass, a new lane on I-205 from Tualatin to Oregon City and the Sunrise Corridor in Clackamas County. More…