Portland Transport

Category: Modes

  • Guerilla Streetcar Stop Activity

    Taking a ride downtown on Friday I encountered some interesting sights at Streetcar stops in NW Portland. Did others see this? I’m curious if whoever did it covered the whole line. [They didn’t, I checked a few more locations on Saturday.] I love the health/pedestrian activism, and I’d love to thank whoever put out the…

  • Feeling Empowered

    I must say I am pleasantly surprised by the personal impact (on me) of the new crosswalks on NW 23rd. Now I’m a fairly assertive pedestrian. I’ll walk out into a crosswalk if there is a reasonable gap and hold out my hand to stop the cars (as is my right under Oregon law if…

  • The Right Way to Go?

    Speaking of vans, I heard something recently at a meeting that I find very interesting: that UPS is changing their routing algorithms so that driver’s routes will exclusively use right-hand turns. Does anyone have a confirmed source for that?

  • Act Now for the Bicycle Master Plan

    This message is bouncing around the blogosphere, but I think it’s important to repeat it here. Mayor Potter has not included $150,000 for an update to the Bicycle Master Plan in his proposed budget. Here’s the original message from the BTA: Mayor Tom Potter’s office has released his draft budget, which includes many of the…

  • A Geeky Community Project?

    Last Tuesday, in a article titled “Portland, out of order“, the Trib took a swipe at the Streetcar Nextbus system: Maybe the ticker signs at the streetcar stops with their wildly innaccurate arrival times. My experience is that Nextbus is pretty accurate (I regularly check it from my cell phone web browser while getting around…