Portland Transport

Category: Modes

  • It Must be Real If There’s a Market for it

    The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday on a new trend in bicycle sales: commuter bikes. Oh my: A radical idea is sweeping the world of American bicycle manufacturing: building bikes that people will use for actual transportation.

  • Feisty Trail Meeting in Lake O

    Metro planned for 40-50 attendees at last night’s workshop on the trail portion of the Willamette Shoreline transit/trail alternatives analysis. They got a substantially larger turnout, apparently due to outreach among neighborhoods along the alignment. The small-group format, designed to answer the planners’ questions about project parameters, went out the window as attendees politely but…

  • KBOO Bike Show: Off-street Trails and Bike and Walk to School

    Featuring a special membership drive program with guest host Tim Calvert discussing the Springwater Trail and his other favorite off-street paths. We talk on the phone with children participating in National Bike and Walk to School Day.

  • Hawthorne Revolt

    Over at Blue Oregon, Frank Dufay is criticizing the service plan for the #14 bus during mall construction. Head over there to read and comment.

  • What’s Up with Trolleybuses?

    The Trolleybus (AKA: electric bus, trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram) is an interesting technology, crossing the rubber-tired bus with the fixed guideway element of overhead caternary wires. Folks from AORTA have proposed trolleybuses as a lower-cost alternative to Streetcars. The nearest local examples are in Seattle. We also saw trolleybuses in operation…