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A Better Alternative to Light Rail on the Mall
The primary arguments for putting light rail on the mall are that it is has been planned for a long time, is needed to increase capacity, provides access to Portland State and enables a connection to a future light rail corridor to Milwaukie. All of these arguments are flawed. Unlike the OHSU Tram project, there…
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Why Don’t We Ride?
Why don’t more people ride the bus? That’s a question Otis White took up in this week’s episode of Smart City, for which he is a regular contributor. You can find the piece about 22 minutes into the show (MP3, 19.3M). White covers some of the class issues (middle class people ride rail but not…
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My (non-)Trip on Streetcar
I had a first last night. The Streetcar was too full to get on board. It was about 5:30 at 10th and Couch, trying to get back to Northwest. The train was shoulder-to-shoulder and about three people got off. About 15 people were waiting to get on, and about six of us wouldn’t fit (I…
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I-5 to 99W Connector Project Steering Committee studies ways to improve traffic movement in the area
Excerpted from Rex’s April newsletter: Regional and local transportation officials have recognized the need for a connection between I-5 and Hwy. 99W for more than a decade. Traffic demand in the southwestern portion of the region has grown substantially, leading to increasingly congested conditions. Metro Councilor Carl Hosticka serves on the I 5 to 99W…
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Another Marker for Platinum
So you have to be either really compulsive or a political junkie (I hope I’m just the latter) to make a point of reading Willamette Week’s “web only” murmers every Wednesday, but the reward this week was to discover that three of Portland’s very own are among the top 100 bike retailers in the counry.