Category: Modes

  • Bridge To Be

    Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending two hours out on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers on a jet board tour of the ‘working waterfront’ (it included the fastest trip I have ever made between the Hawthorne and Steel bridges). The purpose was to remind regional decision makers (I got on by virtue of my…

  • The I-5 Slog

    Hat tip to the reader who forwarded a link to the “I-5 Slog” web site set up by Horizon Air. The site describes the trip from Portland to Seattle on I-5 as the “the longest 3-hour drive in American History”. What a great ad for high-speed rail :-)

  • KBOO Bike Show: Bike Commute Challenge and Cyclo-Cross

    Listen to the show (mp3, 13.0M) Hosts Sara and Tori talk to Michelle Poyourow, the coordinator of the BTA’s Bike Commute Challenge, an annual competition that promotes cycling to work. An additional guest tells us about the upcoming cycle-cross race season.

  • Whew!

    Oregon’s bridges are safe, apparently.

  • Toward a Better Bus System

    Based on a suggestion in our open thread for suggesting topics, here’s an attempt to refocus the Bus vs. LRT debate we seem to have here constantly. Taking MAX out of the equation (you can either assume we stop building more MAX or that we have enough money to both buses and MAX), how would…