Portland Transport

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  • Portland Transport Now Hosting KBOO Bike Show Podcast and Archive

    A few weeks ago I posted a bit of rant about the fact that our competitor for Platinum biking status – Davis, CA – podcasted their bike talk show, while the Portland equivalent, on KBOO, disappeared into the ether after the monthly broadcast. Well, no more! KBOO Bike Show hosts Ayleen Crotty and Sara Stout…

  • Win a Free Bike Tour

    Over at http://www.portlandpeace.org/, they’re offering a raffle for one of their “Sustainable Energy in Motion” bike tours. We don’t know a whole lot about the organization (other than that their blog often picks up links to our posts here at Portland Transport). But the goals sound admirable and the tours looks like fun. Check it…

  • More on Freight in the Netherlands

    One of our final meetings in the Netherlands was one attended by Tom Miller (Sam Adams’ chief of staff) and myself with two representatives of the freight industry: a freight forwarder and a representative of their industry association. The meeting was at Schiphol airport, a major European hub of air freight activity. The area is…

  • Bikes and the Strike

    Todd Boulanger notes that 600,000 people per day cycled into New York during the transit strike (5x normal volume). This press release (PDF, 35K) goes into detail and makes suggestions on how some of that could be made permanent. Todd also points us to a radio program where this is discussed.

  • Real Time Transit Info in Japan

    In the last few days we’ve heard quite a bit about TriMet’s failures during the 12/18-19 insta- winter storm. The Max breakdowns were one thing, but there were also a number of complaints about misleading internet tracking information ( “there was no notice of anything out of the ordinary with her route….She waited and waited…