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The Ultimate in Low Energy Mobility
Of course, getting there without going anywhere is the ultimate in mobility. The effort to get a City-wide WiFi Cloud is having a public workshop on July 28th.
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How Fast Is That Streetcar Anyway?
The perception has been shared here and elsewhere that the Streetcar is slow. Some have even gone so far as to suggest that a person walking can keep up with the Streetcar. First we need to look at the purpose the Streetcar was constructed for. It was designed to be a circulator in the city…
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Path to Platinum Biking
Over at www.commissionersam.com, Sam Adams has asked what it would take to make Portland the first Platinum biking city in the U.S. Today, two Portland Transport contributors who are very close to Portland’s bicycle program share there thoughts on what taking it to the next level might look like. This post is NOT open for…
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Free the Bike!
I attended last year’s ceremony where the League of American Bicyclists (LAB) presented Portland the “Gold” award for best American bike City. Commissioner Adams (great that he landed the Portland Office of Transportation (PDOT) assignment!) has said he doesn’t think this is good enough. He wants us to be “Platinum”, a level the LAB has…
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A Tale of Two [Bicycling] Cities
Over the past 15 years Portland has been very successful in building its bikeway network, installing bicycle parking, and running promotional programs in support of bicycling. The results have been dramatic as increasing bicycle use has correlated nicely with the growth of the network and has demonstrated the success of the “build it and they…