Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • KBOO Bike Show: Emergency!

    Listen to the show (mp3, 27.4MB) Disaster strikes! How can we be prepared, and how can bicycles help us manage in a time of crisis? Our guests are Carmen Merlo, Director of the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management and Ethan Jewett, Organizer of this year’s inaugural Disaster Relief Trials.

  • Is This the Path for the CRC?

    Sunday’s O includes an op-ed arguing that Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement project suggests a process to reach consensus on the Columbia River Crossing? I’m not deeply familiar with this project. Is the deep bore tunnel (and associated projects) a good result? Does the process of building some kind of consensus yield any lessons for…

  • Buy Your Fare on Your Phone

    Sick of those ticket machines? TriMet’s working with a local company on an app to buy your ticket…

  • Cost of Safety Getting Some Analysis

    Last week was a bit busy, and I didn’t have time to comment on the new Metro Safety Report. Jonathan has an excellent write-up over a BikePortland, so I won’t try to rehash it here. But the bottom line is that the cost of crashes is greater than the cost of congestion…

  • Time to Rethink How We Zone Parking?

    Sarah Mirk has an interesting piece in this week’s Mercury in which she talks about the proposed parking plan for the Central Eastside (including some metering, which of course, everyone loves). But the fascinating part is the amount of parking that exists in the district. She documents 400+ parking lots with 14,000+ spaces. Only 8%…