Portland Transport

Category: Light Rail

  • Looking to State to Plug Milwaukie Gap?

    I heard third hand today that Metro and TriMet made a pitch to the Oregon Transportation Commission today to make a multi-year commitment of flexible funds (Federal I assume) to help close the funding gap on the Portland-to-Milwaukie LRT project. Anyone have first hand details?

  • Beyond the Bike Hook

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Colin Maher, TriMet Topic: Beyond the Bike Hook: Linking Bicycles and Transit Abstract: While TriMet and other transit agencies serve many commuters by having racks for bikes on trains and buses, large bike parking facilities in global capitals of urban bicycling provide…

  • 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…