Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Dissecting Curb Parking

    Alan Durning has an outstanding post over at Sightline looking at the policy and expectations around residential curbside parking, including this gem: Urban planners and lawyers may think of on-street parking as public property: a shared, public resource to be managed for the common good. Most home owners–and most voters–think of curb spaces as their…

  • A Good Day for Active Transportation at the Legislature

    On the final day of its 2013 session, the Oregon Legislature made bike and pedestrian projects eligible for Connect Oregon funding (capital funds fueled by the lottery). They also provided $3.6M for a sidewalk project in East Portland where a young child was killed earlier this year. All in all, a good day!

  • KBOO Bike Show: Oregon Scenic Bikeways

    Listen to the show (mp3, 26.5MB) Tori and Steph talk with Alex Phillips, Bicycle Recreation Coordinator at Oregon Parks and Recreation, and Kristin Dahl of Travel Oregon about riding around Oregon and the system of scenic bikeways.

  • Time to Support Broadway/Flint/Wheeler Safety Project!

    Last year I called out the Broadway/Flint/Wheeler intersection as the outstanding presentation in the Traffic and Transportation class. The realization of this effort, in the form of a PBOT project design, is now on the “150% list” for funding in ODOT’s STIP process. The final selection of funded projects will occur shortly. I’m told the…

  • ArrivalStar Patent on the Ropes?

    A company called ArrivalStar has been making a nice business of suing transit systems claiming rights over technology to display real-time arrivals. In fact, ArrivalStar is the main reason that Portland Transport is organized as a 501(c)(3) – so that if our transit tools generated a legal challenge, we’d have a corporate wall to protect…