Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Bookshelf: The New Transit Town

    Link to book at Amazon.com Link to book at Powell’s Link to book at Multnomah County Library List Price: A great overview of Transit Oriented Development principles and practices. Covers issues from planning to finance including case studies based on actual projects. Explains why many TOD projects to date have failed to meet expectations (some…

  • On the Geekier Side of Things

    My professional life has been dominating my activist life this week as I’ve been at the Open Source Conference at the Oregon Convention Center all week. Which puts me in mind that over the longer term, the ambition for Portland Transport is to extend beyond being a conversation about mobility to also be a resource…

  • Updated: Downtown Carpool Moves to Flexcar

    [Apparently my prior title for this post was too cynical :-)] I had actually suggested this idea to Commissioner Adams shortly after he was elected. I suspect that others inside PDOT smarter than me may have originated it independently, but I still feel a small glow of pride… Good for the City and good for…

  • KBOO Bike Show: Safety and Bike Blogs

    Listen to the show (mp3, 12.7M) Safety for cyclists Jonathan Maus from bikeportland.org, a popular Portland bike blog, talks about great bike blogs and other bike-related web sites.

  • The “Portland Bicycle”

    One of the pieces of news this week from the Federal Transportation Bill was funding to prototype local manufacture of streetcars, so that we might have a true “Portland Streetcar”. Well, Portland Transport doesn’t have $4M for a project, but we do have a very creative audience. On several threads it has been remarked that…