Portland Transport

Category: Modes

  • Anticipation…

    Apparently there are rail buffs in the Czech Republic as well as in Portland. Some of them are snapping pictures of our next three Streetcars as they travel around the streets of Ostrava during their burn-in. (More photos here.) They’ve come a long way since I first saw them, but the cars are badly overdue.…

  • KBOO Bike Show: See and Be Seen

    Listen to the show (mp3, 12.3M) Linda Ginenthal from Transportation Options talks about the new See & Be Seen campaign. Plus some of the theme song contest entries and talk about tips for winter riding, including how to keep your spirits up.

  • Burnside: It’s a Couplet … to 19th … with a Streetcar

    It seems to be the worst kept secret in Portland, since Sam has run this past every conceivable stakeholder, but here’s what he will announce at his press conference in a little over an hour (the Trib put it up on their web site last night): He will recommend to his Council colleagues that the…

  • Copenhagen: Cycling as the Nose in the Tent

    A little bit ago, a reader passed on this link to Streetsblog, about the great cycling environment in Copenhagen. While this isn’t news, there are a couple of interesting insights. First, that Copenhagen, unlike Amsterdam, did not have an historic base of cyclists, but turned to cycling as a mode very consciously. Second, that the…

  • TriMet vs. Streetcar – NOT!

    One of the sub-themes running through the Trib’s ReThinking Portland issue on transportation is the role and appropriateness of the Eastside Streetcar project (AKA the Streetcar Loop) and competition between Streetcar and other transit modes. Nick Budnick swears to me that he wasn’t trying to stir up a feud between TriMet and Streetcar (OK, I…