Portland Transport

Category: Audio

  • Why Don’t We Ride?

    Why don’t more people ride the bus? That’s a question Otis White took up in this week’s episode of Smart City, for which he is a regular contributor. You can find the piece about 22 minutes into the show (MP3, 19.3M). White covers some of the class issues (middle class people ride rail but not…

  • Golden Oldies: From Bike Summer 2002

    Three episodes of the KBOO Bike Show from Bike Summer 2002 in Portland.

  • Audio: Bicycle Highways in the Sky

    From last week’s Smart City radio program: Imagine this: Bicycles traveling at speeds up to 50 miles per hour in enclosed tubes hanging above the streets. That’s the vision of Chris Hardwicke, a Toronto architect who is promoting his idea as Velo-City. It’s worth a listen (it’s the first segment in the show’s audio file…

  • Bikes and the Strike

    Todd Boulanger notes that 600,000 people per day cycled into New York during the transit strike (5x normal volume). This press release (PDF, 35K) goes into detail and makes suggestions on how some of that could be made permanent. Todd also points us to a radio program where this is discussed.

  • Platinum Podcast

    If you’re a blogger one of the technologies you have to track is RSS, and it’s a quick jump from RSS into podcasting. So I often run into interesting podcasts. Last week I stumbled across Bike Talk and their podcast. The show is out of Davis, California, which is significant since Davis is the first…