Portland Transport

Category: Light Rail

  • Two Paradigms for Transit Parking

    Last month I had the chance to sit in on a brown bag session about the new bike parking facility under construction at the Sunset Transit Center. Currently, the main way to get secure bike parking at a transit center is to rent a locker for a monthly fee. This has never worked for me,…

  • 8 Out of 9 Experts Support Federal Transit Aid

    Via Planetizen: A panel assembled by The National Journal overwhelmingly favors the bill now in Congress that would provide $2B in operating assistance to transit agencies.

  • Augmented Reality Comes to TriMet

    Clearly an escape from the real world is required. Seriously, there are several new applications making use of TriMet’s open data, and a couple of them take an augmented reality approach. For example, you can point your camera phone at a bus stop and get an overlay of the next arrival time. Very cool, but…

  • Feds to the Rescue on Transit Operations?

    The “Public Transportation Preservation Act of 2010” was introduced in the Senate yesterday. According to Transportation for America it will: …authorize $2 billion for transit agencies nationwide to help close funding gaps in operating costs. Transit agencies can use these funds to reduce fare increases and restore services that were cut after January 2009 or…

  • How We Pay for Rail Expansion Matters

    I’m looking forward to the Milwaukie Light Rail project opening around 2015. It’s an important expansion of our regional LRT network and will improve connectivity across the river dramatically for transit, bikes and pedestrians at the south end of the Central City. But I’m disappointed by one element of the funding strategy. TriMet will issue…