Author: rburkholder

  • Updated: Walk There

    Updated: 5/5/09 My correspondent at Metro tells me that the Walk There guide is now available in an updated second edition, but is, unfortunately, no longer free. It is available for $9.95 from the Metro Data Resource Center and at local book stores. Many of the walks are available as free downloadable PDFs from Metro’s…

  • Climate Change Integration Group Report

    From Metro Councilor Rex Burkholder: Attached is a big file, the final report of the Climate Change Integration Group (PDF, 1.9M), set up by the Governor to make recommendations on how Oregon should respond to and try to counteract, global warming. In particular, check out the section on reducing vehicle miles traveled on page 50-54.…

  • Regional High Capacity Transit System Plan

    Since the Regional Transportation Plan is fully underway, and grabs most of the headlines, I thought everyone should also know about what Metro is doing with regard to high capacity rail planning. First of all, we in Portland owe much to the dedicated and visionary leaders and planners in the 1970’s and 1980’s for the…

  • Virgin Carbon

    Rex passed along this link to a piece by Richard Branson about Virgin’s efforts to reduce their carbon output.

  • Whoops! Did I say that?

    Update: 12/18/06 Rex’s piece ran as an op-ed in today’s O, with a response piece from Gregg Weston of OTAK. Gregg’s comeback is that we should set “audacious goals” for transportation. Hmmm… should our transportation goals be audacious? Or should our transportation goals be modest and our land use goals audacious? Or some combination thereof?…