Category: Modes

  • TriMet Announces Changes to Tickets and Ticket Machines

    TriMet issued a press release today with information about their new tickets (mostly for use at MAX stations, but also buses on the mall if that practice is revived when the mall re-opens) and modifications to older ticket machines. Starting in November, we’re introducing new fares that are easier to use: All tickets and passes…

  • Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: Post Election Analysis

    Post election woes and victories. Guest Karl Rohde will discuss current pro-bicycle legislation, what passed, what didn’t pass and what’s coming down the bike lane. 9-10AM, Wednesday, November 5th KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm Podcast here later that day

  • Updated: Rail/Road Math

    Update, 10/22/08 OK, I admit that the framing of my question was very local-centric without considering the full path of a freight trip. But a reader passed along an interesting article that suggests that this can still be successfully managed in a sleepy little rail town called Chicago. Original Post, 10/20/08: Jim Young, chair of…

  • Buses Done Right

    Streetfilms has a great video of the bus system in Boulder, CO. Erik is going to salivate. I particularly like the bike storage in the luggage compartment. We could use room for six bikes on the #96, which I’ve pretty much given up on because the bike racks are always full.

  • Davis, Revisited

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2008 Transportation Seminar Series At the beginning of the Fall term, we still had a few Friday slots to be filled. Well, now they have all been filled up. Plus we have updated the seminar website, and have put the archives (by date or by subject) on…