Category: Modes

  • KBOO Bike Show: Traffic Engineers

    Listen to the show (mp3, 26.6MB) Traffic engineers Rob Burchfield and Peter Koonce from the City of Portland and Jim Peters from DKS Associates visit with Tori and Michelle to discuss how our streets are being designed for bikes. Do you know what the MUCTD MUTCD is?

  • Double Deckers as Express Buses

    A guest column overviewing double-decker bus technology.

  • EmX Gateway Extension to open this Sunday

    Gateway branch of Lane Transit District’s EmX system opens Sunday, Jan 9.

  • Where it All Began

    This year my Christmas present to my family was getting all of my Mom’s old Super-8 home movies converted to digital video files. While going through the videos and cataloging the content, I came across this sequence – my first bicycle, just after the training wheels came off (circa 1967). Looking forward to smiling big…

  • Active Transportation Investments to Follow Light Rail Model?

    An interesting notice from Metro yesterday that the committee established to recommend policy on how to allocate flexible funds has come out with a recommendation: allocate funds for active transportation to build out complete corridors, rather than to a variety of projects: Some refer to this as “the light rail model” because of the way…