Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Shoup Weighs in on NW Parking Plan

    A few years before starting this blog in 2005 I channeled my wonkery hours into serving as the lead neighborhood representative in trying to develop a parking plan for NW Portland. I still have the scars from when that effort crashed and burned. At the time I predicted that we had poisoned the well for…

  • Your Questions for Neil, Round 3, Part 3 – PMLR

    In the third segment (of four) of our conversation with TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane, we discuss the Portland-to-Milwaukie Light Rail project. A transcript of the interview, prepared by Engineer Scotty, follows the jump.

  • Your Questions for Neil, Round 3, Part 2 – The Labor Contract

    In the second segment (of four) of our conversation with TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane, we cover the status of TriMet’s contract with ATU (Amalgamated Transit Union). A transcript of the interview, prepared by EngineerScotty, is after the jump.

  • Your Questions for Neil, Round 3, Part 1

    Earlier this month I had the opportunity to sit down with TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane to pose questions on behalf of Portland Transport readers. We’ll be releasing videos of this conversation in four parts, starting this evening with Part 1, focusing on TriMet’s proposed service cuts. This conversation happened on the day of the…

  • In Search of a Better Parking Lot

    An intriguing op-ed in the New York Times focuses on how much land is given over to parking our cars and how we might make it perform better for us.