Category: Modes

  • Threading a Trail

    Part of the Willamette Shoreline transit analysis is providing a trail through the corridor. This sometimes tends to get overlooked while haggling over the potential transit options. But the trail moves front and center at workshop next week: Community Design Workshop When: October 3, 2006 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. (drop in any time) Where: Adult…

  • Faster Streetcar?

    Over at Transit Sleuth, Adron has published his thoughts on how to make the Portland Streetcar faster. Signal pre-emption at every intersection. That’s a pretty clear statement about priorities!

  • The Missing Link – A stroll along the Sullivan’s Gulch Corridor

    When not consulting or teaching computer classes, MJ Coe spends his time as a board member of the Laurelhurst Neighborhood Association, as President of Portland Progressive Toastmasters, and as a member of the Sullivan’s Gulch Corridor Steering Committee. Travel down the I-84 corridor/Banfield Highway between the Convention Center and Gateway during rush hour, and what…

  • Vancouver Bike Box

    One of the incidental pleasures from our Vancouver, B.C. trip was seeing this bike box on Dunsmuir Street in the hear out downtown Vancouver. This is a tool we have not embraced yet to any significant degree in Portland (I think we have a pilot somewhere), but is common in the Netherlands. At intersections, bikes…

  • Financing Cleaner Trucks

    Yesterday’s Daily Journal of Commerce has an article on nonprofit Cascade Sierra Solutions, which is planning to open five technology centers on the I-5 corridor between California and Washington. The organization will install and finance energy savings and emmissions reduction equipment on trucks. The stores will offer more than 40 fuel-saving products at manufacturers’ group-rate…