Category: Leadership

  • Back Again: Visitor From Vancouver

    Updated 11/10/14 Gordon’s visit this year is this Wednesday Thursday in the Portland Building at 6:40pm. Original Post 11/12/13 It’s time for the annual Gordon Price lecture to the Traffic and Transportation class: What: Gordon Price Presentation When: Thursday 11/14, 6:40 – 8:40 p.m. Where: Portland Building Auditorium, 1120 SW 5th Ave Cost: Free and Open…

  • Your Questions For Neil, “Round 5”, Part 4 – Potpourri

    And now, the final segment of our video interview with TriMet’s Neil McFarlane. This episode, “Potpourri”, featuring a variety of your questions. Topics include: Bikes on MAX cars – are there ways to add capacity? Bike parking and bikeshare at MAX stations TriMet’s take on carbon emissions – what will it take to get to…

  • Your Questions For Neil, “Round 5″, Part 2 – Ridership / Operations / Budget

    Yesterday, we posted the first in a series of videos featuring Portland Transport’s interview with TriMet’s Neil McFarlane, based on your questions. Today, here’s Part 2… Today’s topics are Ridership, Operations and Budget: Recent press about transit at historically high levels, but TriMet’s has not fully recovered to pre-2009. Some service has recently been restored,…

  • Your Questions For Neil, “Round 5”, Part 1 – High-Capacity Projects

    Last Wednesday, Chris sat down with TriMet’s Neil McFarlane for a discussion focused on your questions. This has become a sort of annual tradition for Portland Transport, and this year we were very pleased to be hosted by the Portland Opera – the Opera headquarters is located on the east bank of the Willamette just…

  • Telling Your Story

    PSU Transportation Seminar: 10 Tips to Tell Your Story in a Thought-Provoking and Technically Truthful Way Speaker: Dave Thompson, Public Information Section Manager, Oregon DOT Topic: 10 Tips to Tell Your Story in a Thought-Provoking and Technically Truthful Way When: Friday, March 7, 2014, 12-1 p.m. Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204 Abstracts: How do…