Category: Meta Transport

  • Weekend Housekeeping

    We’ve reorganized the sidebar on the home page, hoping to make it easier to navigate our categories with a new pull-down menu. Perhaps we should just be more disciplined and have fewer categories, but… There’s also a new section that hopes to make it easier to subscribe to Portland Transport via a variety of RSS…

  • Housekeeping

    A couple of changes on the site to note. First, we’ve upgraded to Movable Type version 3.2. The biggest impact should be coping with comment and trackback spam. This should not be very visible to users, as we have been policing it diligently, but it will be less effort now for us to stay on…

  • Postcard from Amsterdam

    A short break from writing about policy to talk about our experience here in Amsterdam. I couldn’t resist taking this photo for Commissioner Dan Saltzman. It’s the perfect urban development – transportable, green-roof, residential – do you think we can get it LEED certified? It’s actually just a block from our Amsterdam HQ. Portland Transport…

  • Irregular Publication Schedule

    We’re leaving for Prague on Monday afternoon. Due to travel and time zones, our usual habit of having a new post for you to read each weekday morning may be a little hard to keep, but count on a regular stream of posts from Europe, even if the timing is more ragged!

  • Portland Transport is Going to Europe

    [photos removed per agreement] That’s right, we’re headed oversees. Your correspondent is headed to Prague at the end of the month to join the Portland Streetcar delegation going to inspect the next three cars now under construction in the Czech Republic. The next stop on the trip is Amsterdam, where I’ll join Commissioner Sam Adams,…