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30 Years of Trolleybus Advocacy
Long-time transit advocates will be familiar with Ray Polani. Ray has been advocating for a greater role for public transit for decades, most recently focusing on the need to run MAX under the river and underground through downtown for greater speed and efficiency. Ray is old-school, he doesn’t use a computer. Nonetheless he heard about…
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Organizing the World’s Transit
Google describes its mission as “organizing the world’s information”. Friday, at the Transit track of GOSCON, Google discussed its plans for Google Transit with the assembled participants. Ultimately, Google intends for the transit planner to be part of its overall multi-modal trip planner (as in get from any point A on the globe to any…
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Progress from Tragedy?
Almost a year ago I had the sad occassion to write about a pedestrian fatality just around the corner from my home. It’s possible that some good may come out of this. The neighborhood association has been aggressively working with PDOT to improve safety on NW 21st and 23rd. PDOT has already re-signed the streets…
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BTA Advocates Bike Boulevard Project
Update 10/11/06: Over at the BTA Blog, they’re reporting that this is still up for grabs in the next round of decision making and have suggestions for the next steps for advocacy. Original Post 9/29/06: We heard from you and hundreds of other cyclists that you strongly prefer cycling on low-traffic bicycle boulevards. Here’s your…
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Trolleybus History
Following up on our discussion on trolleybuses, Dan Haneckow has published a history of trolleybuses in Portland, over on his Cafe Unknown blog. Well worth the read!