Portland Transport

Category: Land Use Connections

  • Diary of an Intersection

    Metro has an 8-part, in depth profile of 82nd and Division, looking at the past, present and future of the intersection. Well worth a read.

  • How Wide is the Effect of Transit?

    Traditionally we figure folks will walk a quarter mile to a bus line, maybe a bit further to a rail station. But an analysis from Dallas suggests that rent premiums can be found as much as a mile away from light rail…

  • The Policy Folly of Park and Rides

    Over at Human Transit, Jarrett has an excellent post detailing why dedicated park & ride facilities (as opposed to shared use of existing parking lots that have another principal function – like church lots) make no sense from either a transportation or land use point of view, especially when there is no charge for parking.…

  • A Primer on Trip Generation

    As a key factor in determining rates for Portland’s proposed street utility fee, the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ (ITE, henceforth) Trip Generation Manual has gotten a lot of love lately among local transportation wonks. It is worthwhile, then, to take a quick trip through the weeds of the manual to better understand where the opportunities…

  • Did the great crime decline cause modern urbanism?

    One of my big and untested (but unrebutted) hunches about the urbanism revolution, the drop in vehicle-miles traveled per person and so forth, is that it all flows from the rapid and mostly unexplained decline in crime rates that began in 1994. As cities became safer, the first to notice were the young, poor, mobile…