This morning the Oregonian recognized Chris, our tenacious PortlandTransport.com founder and sustainer. Anna Griffin did a nice job on this article, read it at http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news/115491751959360.xml?oregonian?lcfp&coll=7. In the honor of Chris’s community mind, spirit, and 30 hour “real” work week, please let us know how you feel about citizen activism, public involvement, and corporate activism in…

In the blatant self-promotion category, yours truly is part of a team hosting one of the City Club’s “Citizen Salons“. Our event is a brunch on Sunday August 20th with Metro President David Bragdon and Lake Oswego Mayor Judie Hammerstad as featured guests. Both are members of the state’s Big Look Task Force, re-examining the…

Yes, today is the anniversary of the first post here on Portland Transport. While we didn’t go public until the following week, it was a year ago that we first cajoled friends and family to take a peek at this thing we had created – and please leave some comments so visitors would see some…

An article in today’s Tribune on TriMet operations features direct quotes from this blog and further quotes from two of our contributors, identified as such! Wed. Update: Apparently more than a few people visited after reading the Trib article, we had about 50% more visitors than usual yesterday.

Barring a server crash, sometime in the next hour or so, Portland Transport is going to log its 50,000th visitor. A few other numbers: 476 posts 3088 comments … oops make that 3089 Wow…