Portland Transport

Category: Leadership

  • Where They Stand

    Via Streetsblog. The Bookings Institution has produced a point-by-point comparison on where McCain and Obama stand on transportation issues.

  • Rob Zako for OTC!

    Occasional Portland Transport contributor and state-wide transportation advocate (Rob is the organizer of the Otran e-mail list) Rob Zako has applied for one of the two open positions on the Oregon Transportation Commission. I will be writing to Governor Kulongoski to recommend Rob, and I would urge other Portland Transport readers to do the same.…

  • Achterman to Head Transportation Commission

    I’ll have a more detailed reflection on yesterday’s Oregon Business Plan Summit later, after I’ve digested all the documents. But one nice piece of news is that the Governor announced that he was appointing Gail Achterman as chair of the Oregon Transportation Commission. Achterman has been the most progressive voice on the Commission for some…

  • Getting Presidential

    We usually avoid candidate politics here because we’re organized as a 501(c)(3) and can’t take positions on candidates. But we can provide a neutral forum, and I’m going to try to do that with this post. I was struck by a post over on the Daily Score about Barak Obama’s energy and climate plan. So…

  • Defining the Walk for Walking Your Talk

    Following up on our earlier discussion on whether Al Gore is walking is talk, Portland Transport contributor Rick Browning recently sent this letter to the editor of the NY Times questioning whether it’s about how you get there or how far there is… To the Editor, Environmental activist Bill McKibben’s custom home in rural Ripton,…