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Open Thread for the week of November 17-23, 2013
What’s on your mind?
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Open Thread for week of November 10-16, 2013
Stuff in the news: Metro approves $68M in active transportation/freight funds. Metro also claims that the region can meet state emission standards, while noting a disconnect between plans on the books, and the current political realities. Joseph Rose questions a recent survey ranking Portland’s traffic as eighth worst in the nation. Sightline Institute blogger Clark…
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Open thread for week of November 3-9, 2013
A few news items: The Metro Council has voted to approve the work done so far on the SW Corridor. No more charging your cell phones from TriMet ticket machine kiosks. Stephen J. Smith reports that in 2015, the FRA will permit European rolling stock on US rails. This is a potential win for transit technologies…
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Open Thread for week of 9/29/2013
A few hot items: Joseph Rose looks at final ridership numbers for FY13. (They are down. TriMet blames the end of Free Rail Zone and nice weather this past summer; the biggest ridership drop was LRT, with some summer declines in bus ridership). Metro Councilor Bob Stacey wades into the debate whether as to how…
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Open Thread for the week of 9/1/2013
We’re starting a new custom of a weekly open thread, rather than monthly. A few news items for the week: September is here, which means the kids go back to school, and TriMet service changes take effect. Most of these were discussed previously; the good news is that this year brings a few modest service…