Portland Transport

Category: Bus

  • Double Deckers as Express Buses

    A guest column overviewing double-decker bus technology.

  • Another Way to Assess Transit Equity

    I greeted “Transit Score” with some interest, and am using it as the basis for our Transit Equity project. But another recently released tool called Mapnificent gives a more visual way to look at how good transit service is for a given location, it shows a map of how far you can get under an…

  • Let Me Say that Again

    It’s my fault, I buried the lead. In yesterday’s post, I laid out what I think are four legitimate policy questions about how we manage our transit system. And I saved what I thought was the best for last. Apparently, no one could get past the first one, as that was the focus of all…

  • Framing Our Transit Debates

    Our block group map is filling in! I thought that was a good opportunity to reflect on the way our debates around transit service get framed. View Larger Map As the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail line struggles to close its funding gap, the political debate (at least in transportation geek circles) continues to boil. The debate…

  • The Oregon gubernatorial election and transit

    PortlandTransport.com looks at the Oregon gubernatorial election between Democrat John Kitzhaber, and Republican Chris Dudley, and its potential affect on transit in the Portland area.