Portland Transport

Category: Modes

  • KBOO Bike Show: Congressman Earl Blumenauer

    Listen to the show (mp3, 27.1MB) Earl discusses cycling and transportation policy and funding, both locally and nationally with Tori and Steph. Timo Forsberg from the Portland Bureau of Transportation talks about events for May’s “PDX Bike Month”.

  • Low-Stress Bicycling and Bike Network Connectivity

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2012 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Peter Furth (Northeastern University) Topic: Low-Stress Bicycling and Bike Network Connectivity When: Friday, May 4th, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204

  • We’re Number 10!

    Transit service is a painful topic right now, but we might want to take a second to remember that relative to a lot of other places, we’re still in a pretty good place (but will never be complacent). The good folks at WalkScore have released a ranking of major metros by their aggregate TransitScore –…

  • More Reflections on car2go

    Now that car2go has been in operation for a few weeks, I’ve had a chance to use it a handful of times and have some additional observations. There’s also been more than a little chatter on the interwebs among transportation advocates that car2go makes it too convenient to use a car! In my own use,…

  • Digging Into TriMet’s Proposed Service Changes: Washington County Edition

    Last month, Zef covered in detail TriMet’s proposed service changes to both NE and NW Portland. (He also had some additional thoughts on the cuts as a whole over at Portland Afoot, see also here). Zef is unfamiliar with Washington County, so we agreed that I would do the article about the proposed changes affecting…