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Metro President Candidates on Transit
Part Four of our series on responses to our candidate questionnaire. Please remember the ground rules on comments for this series There are some special rules for comments on these posts. As a 501(c)(3), Portland Transport cannot and does not endorse candidates. So please no comments of the form “you should vote for _______ because…
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City Club’s Big Ideas for Transportation Governance
City Club of Portland has just released its transportation governance study report: “Moving Forward: A Better Way to Govern Regional Transportation” (PDF, 5.5M). Among the big ideas for reforming transportation governance in our region: Shift most of the money that ODOT spends inside the region (other than for the freeway system) to be programmed by…
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Metro President Candidates on Funding
Part Three of our series on responses to our candidate questionnaire. Please remember the ground rules on comments for this series There are some special rules for comments on these posts. As a 501(c)(3), Portland Transport cannot and does not endorse candidates. So please no comments of the form “you should vote for _______ because…
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Metro President Candidates on the CRC
Part Two of our series on responses to our candidate questionnaire. Please remember the ground rules on comments for this series 3. Columbia River Crossing: The CRC, even with the cost reductions currently being discussed, would represent a significant fraction of all transportation investment in the region in the next 20 years. What is the…
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Metro President Candidates: Vision and Policy
This week we’ll be publishing the responses to our candidate questionnaire, starting with the vision and policy questions today. Unfortunately Mayor Hughes has yet to reply to our questionnaire. If he does respond, we’ll include his responses and update these posts when he does. Meanwhile we’ll proceed with the responses from Rex Burkholder and Bob…