Portland Transport

Category: Modes

  • A Little Streetcar Music

    Here’s a bit of an entertainment diversion for the weekend. Just over a month ago, several groups came together to produce an event called “Portland’s Streetcar Mobile Music Fest”, which featured eight different bands or performers on a series of streetcars over a three-hour period. The event was quite well-received, and many riders turned out…

  • Is TriMet Getting Some Hybrid Lift Vehicles?

    via Streetsblog: I haven’t heard anything about this locally, but this DOT document (PDF) contains a fairly cryptic item: Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) Project: Transit Vehicle Replacement (Mini-Hybrid) Amount: $5,000,000 TriMet will use funds to replace buses in its fleet that are beyond their useful lives with minihybrid technology buses. Or am…

  • Connecting Bicycle and Rail Networks

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Ronald Tamse (City of Utrecht, Netherlands) Topic: Lessons from Utrecht: Connecting Bicycle and Rail Networks When: Friday, October 21, 2011, 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204

  • Metro Survey on Active Transportation

    Earlier this year Metro launched an interesting approach to public input in the form of their “Opt In Panel” program, an opportunity to voluntarily register to take surveys on topics of interest/action by the Metro Council. The current survey is on Active Transportation. If you haven’t already joined the program, this might be your moment.

  • Better Trips, Transformational Leadership

    There was a flurry of news on Friday, describing TriMet’s new multi-modal trip planner. There is no question the planner is very cool. The ability to integrate bike and transit trip planning, better pedestrian routing to transit stops, and a myriad a bells and whistles (check out the ‘bike triangle’!) are a great step forward.…