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Economic Value of Walkability
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2009 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Joe Cortright, Vice President/Economist, Impresa, Inc. Topic: Economic Value of Walkability When: Friday, Oct 23, 2009, 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204
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Buying a Lottery Ticket for the “Innovation Quadrant”
If you haven’t heard of it, the Innovation Quadrant is the latest name for the area covering PSU, OHSU and OMSI. More to the point, it includes three projects that will help ‘close’ the Streetcar Loop after the new bridge is completed: Create a new double-track connection through the re-developed Jasmine block adjacent to the…
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Would You Like Some Streetcar with Your Greens?
The Environmental Impact Statement process for the Willamette Shoreline corridor is ramping up and a set of of community events have been scheduled … at markets: 2:30 to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9 Lake Oswego Albertsons, 11 S. State St. 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10 Lake Oswego Farmers’ Market, 200 First St.…
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Sellwood Funding Coming Together?
The Multnomah County Commission is getting read to add $19 to your auto registration fee and apparently Clackamas County will follow with $5. Coupled with the City of Portland diverting some of the increase in gas tax revenue it will see from the Legislature’s transportation package, will this be enough to get the Sellwood Bridge…
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Barbur LRT Conversations Begin
Metro’s new RSS Feed reports that a couple of Councilors recently met with TriMet and local electeds to tour the potential Light Rail alignment. Metro was quick to point out that no priority corridor had yet been selected from the top three corridors in the recently adopted High Capacity Transit plan (the other two being…