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Why I’m Voting for Measure 26-80
No, it’s not (direclty) a transportation measure. But it does have a big impact on our urban form, and therefore on transportation. Measure 26-80 is the next phase of Metro’s Green Spaces acquisition program. The first phase, based on a 1995 ballot measure, has allowed Metro to purchase in excess of 8,000 acres of natural…
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Public Opinion on Transit
On Friday, pollster Adam Davis spoke to City Club’s Friday Forum on the topic of the disconnect between leaders and the public (as he put it, between the edges of the bell curve and the bell). No, I didn’t ask him a transportation question – I asked about citizenship and the public “commons”. But Ray…
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Oregon’s Next Governor?
Our project to get the candidates for Governor to respond to our questionnaire has gone nowhere. Apparently the campaigns get deluged with these things. Only the Westlund campaign was forthright enough to tell us straight up that they weren’t going to respond. But here’s an opportunity for a little insight. At the Westside Economic Alliance…
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Ask More Candidates
Over at News4Neighbors, they’re conducting an ‘online debate’ for the City Council and County Commission candidates, and are soliciting more questions. How about suggesting some transportation questions? And please, let’s be more creative than asking about the Tram :-)
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Portland Transport sends candidate questionnaire to Oregon Governor candidates
The following went out as an advisory to the press last night: Portland Transport sends candidate questionnaire to Oregon Governor candidates Portland Transport, a blog focusing on transportation policy in the Portland/Vancouver metro region, has issued a candidate questionnaire (attached) for the Oregon Governor’s race. “State policy has a huge effect on local transportation and…