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Incenting Behavior Change
Remember the old advertising jingle, “I’d like to buy the world a coke…”, well how about a new version: “I’d like to buy the world a bike…” Here’s a success story from the Rogue Valley on getting folks to change their transportation patterns. In April of 2005, fifteen courageous Rogue Valley citizens committed to giving…
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Any Ethicists Out There?
When do the needs of many trump the rights of an individual? I had an interesting experience on the #15 bus on Saturday (coming home from watching An Inconvenient Truth). The bus was approaching the (red) light at 18th and Morrison, wanting to make the right turn to get out to Burnside. There was a…
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Trans Trib
It almost seems that today’s Portland Tribune is only about transportation! Discussion of shelters for the new transit mall. Is the business community trying to unshelter the mall? Regular Portland Transport contributor Bob Richardson is quoted. New development is cutting off connections in the SW Trail network. This network serves as an alternative to the…
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Another Link from Cycling to the Economy
Last week’s Business Journal has a guest column by Bart Eberwein, suggesting that we could generate additional tourism dollars by promoting Oregon as THE cycling state. Here’s part of the vision: Fly into Portland where you are met by a bicycle concierge who helps you assemble your bikes, answers questions about routes, etc., and off…
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When’s My Bus Coming?
In the Sunday O, Jim Mayer has an article about the TriMet bus lines that are most consistently late (TriMet defines this as more than 5 minutes behind schedule). The champion is the #95 I-5 Tigard Express. In fact, all of the worst performing lines are long-haul lines, often expresses, that are most likely to…