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M.O.M. Trailer is Back
About this time last year, I enthused about a Kickstarter project for a bicycle utility trailer adaptable to a variety of tasks. It didn’t fund then, but the project is back with more modest goals to get tooling put together to begin production. I’m excited to back the project, and I hope you’ll consider it…
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KBOO Bike Show: Emergency!
Listen to the show (mp3, 27.4MB) Disaster strikes! How can we be prepared, and how can bicycles help us manage in a time of crisis? Our guests are Carmen Merlo, Director of the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management and Ethan Jewett, Organizer of this year’s inaugural Disaster Relief Trials.
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Guest Post: A proposal for a downtown rail tunnel
This guest post is by Portland Transport reader dan w. We are always happy to publish well-written, topical guest posts; contact myself, Chris, or Bob if you are interested.–ES The idea of putting MAX underground through downtown Portland has been around for some time, and I’ve had a concept for a MAX subway that, with…
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Dude, Where’s My Streetcar?
The Oregonian details schedule status for the Oregon Iron Works/United Streetcar order for the Streetcar Loop. Obviously we’re not celebrating. But I’d like to underscore a couple of points: 1) We’re not going to do anything that compromises the safety, quality or reliability of the new vehicles. If that means waiting, we’ll wait for delivery.…
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Updated: Analyzing Barriers to Cycling
Updated: 6/8/12 The paper behind this presentation is now available (PDF, 6.3M). Original Post: 5/10/12 Last week’s PSU Transportation Seminar was particularly thought-provoking. Peter Furth of Northeastern University has developed a quantitative analysis methodology for evaluating the comfort level of links in a bicycle network (or put another way, how bike-friendly any given street is).…