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Defining the Walk for Walking Your Talk
Following up on our earlier discussion on whether Al Gore is walking is talk, Portland Transport contributor Rick Browning recently sent this letter to the editor of the NY Times questioning whether it’s about how you get there or how far there is… To the Editor, Environmental activist Bill McKibben’s custom home in rural Ripton,…
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Real Time Transit Info in Japan
In the last few days we’ve heard quite a bit about TriMet’s failures during the 12/18-19 insta- winter storm. The Max breakdowns were one thing, but there were also a number of complaints about misleading internet tracking information ( “there was no notice of anything out of the ordinary with her route….She waited and waited…
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Gaia in a Knockout
Correspondent Rick Browning, recently back from Japan, is now in South Florida helping his mother recover from Hurricane Wilma. Gaia has literally as well as figuratively clouted the car! Trees smash cars! See photos.
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More from Japan: Should Standards be Standard?
[Editor’s note – contributor Rick Browning is currently in Japan studying urban streetcape issues, supported by a grant from the Architectural Foundation of Oregon.] Konichi wa Portland Transport Gang! Still in Japan. It has been more challenging than I thought trying to sketch, diagram, keep a journal, interview Japanese designers and planners and — do…
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A Report from our Japan Correspondent
Background: As part of my ongoing, seemingly single handed crusade to look at multitasking of sidewalk spaces for multimodal use I was awarded a grant from the Architectural Foundation of Oregon (AFO) to study the ped/bike zone of urban streetscapes in Japan. So… I am writing from my hotel room in Kobe looking out at…