Category: Modes

  • Two Editorials

    Regular Portland Transport commenter Erik Halstead had a guest editorial published in the Portland Tribune a couple of weeks ago, regarding the state of TriMet’s bus fleet: http://www.portlandtribune.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=120578246708008500 Today, TriMet’s Fred Hansen responded: http://www.portlandtribune.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=120699417903725300 Check out the original editorials, and share your comments (there or here).

  • Cheesy but Informative

    Our good friend and PDOT safety guru Greg Raisman asked us to post a link to PDOT’s new video explaining how bike boxes work. [Greg is the informative driver in the video :-) ] See it here: http://media.ci.portland.or.us/onthemovesmooth/onthemovesmooth.html

  • Clever Commute Spreads to Buses

    Clever Commute has added the #12 bus line (actually two lines: #12 Sandy and #12 Barbur) to its options. Erik, I expect to see regular notices of service issues on Barbur from you :-) Clever Commute would like nominations for the next bus lines to add…

  • Paris Vélib’

    Gordon Price has one of the best overviews I’ve seen of the Paris bikesharing/rental program in his “PriceTags” #101 (PDF, 2.8M). Let’s hope for a similar system here very soon. Speaking of bikes, I have a few spaces left ($75 each) at my table at the BTA’s “Alice in Paris” fundraiser on March 22nd. If…

  • US PIRG Report on Transit

    The U.S. Public Interest Research Group recently released a report “A Better Way to Go” contrasting auto use and transit. Rather than review it here, I’ll point you to an excellent review on The Overhead Wire blog.