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Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show:
Carl and Ayleen interview Portlanders who gave up driving for the month of July as part of the Low-Car-Diet Challenge. Hear how bikes fit into their transportation mix. Chris Smith will discuss transportation aspects of the upcoming Project Homeless Connect, along with volunteer opportunities. 9-10AM, Wednesday, August 1st KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm…
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Web of Streetcars
Most of Sam Adam’s speech at City Club on Friday was about the more dismal question of how to pay for maintenance, but the Oregonian coverage leads with the idea for a City-wide Streetcar plan. Sam hearkened back to the 1920’s when Portland had over 100 miles of Streetcar tracks. You can download the full…
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How Walkable is Your Neighborhood?
There’s an interesting new Google Maps Mashup called Walk Score that looks at how far it is from any given address to key services like a grocery store, drugstore, schools, parks, etc. and computes a walkability score. Mine was 95 out of 100 :-) Note that the site has had some problems with heavy traffic…
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Rapid Streetcar
A quick shout out to a post over at “The Overhead Wire” blog that talks about the topic of rapid streetcar. It posits that Streetcars with greater stop spacing could serve as more cost effective alternatives to Light Rail, and references the proposed Lake Oswego line as an example. [Bob, if you dig through the…
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Streetcars and Bicycles, a Learning Experience
When we built the first Streetcar alignment, we ran into a conflict with the bike lane on NW Lovejoy. The design solution at that time was to create a path for bikes through the platform area. I didn’t work very well, on two counts: Pedestrians waiting for the Streetcar tend not to recognize that they’re…