Portland Transport

Category: Modes

  • A Natural Connection? Open Source Software and Alternative Transporation

    I’ve often thought that the philosophies behind open source software and alternative transportation were fundamentally in sync. They’re about making better use of our shared commons. In one case, the commons of ideas and their expression, in the other, the commons of our public spaces and transportation infrastructure. I got a little bit of reinforcement…

  • Trackless in Portland: Where’s My Bus?

    As an occasional transit rider, using the system isn’t completely intuitive for me. Any time I don’t know when the next bus is coming is a moment when I might get frustrated and give up.That’s why the new technologies TriMet has been implementing have made the system a lot easier to use, which makes me…

  • Updates to the Bike Channel

    Based on feedback from users, we’ve changed the background on the Portland Bike Channel. It’s now a collage (updated daily) from Jonathan’s photos. It does not rotate, and content above it is no longer semi-transparent. Clearly this was a case of a cool programming feature not being useful to real users :-) We’ve also added…

  • Standing Room Only

    Portland Streetcar does a ridership sample each quarter. We were all a bit overwhelmed when the summer counts came back and said we had 7800 riders each weekday. Hold on to that hanger strap, the fall (Sep-Nov) counts are in and we’re at 9,000 weekday riders. Saturday ridership is down slightly (6,600 down from 7,600…

  • Announcing the “Bike Channel”

    Here at Portland Transport we’re announcing a new site today, which we’re titling “The Portland Bike Channel”. You can find it at http://bikechannel.portlandtransport.com. This is an ‘aggregated’ site. It cotains capsule summaries of the posts to Bike Portland, ORBike and Portland Transport blogs (the bike category only from the latter). The idea is to create…