Category: Modes

  • CNN Wants to Know About Your Streetcar Rides

    They’ll even take your pictures or video on their ‘iReporter’ site.

  • Another Way to Assess Transit Equity

    I greeted “Transit Score” with some interest, and am using it as the basis for our Transit Equity project. But another recently released tool called Mapnificent gives a more visual way to look at how good transit service is for a given location, it shows a map of how far you can get under an…

  • Pedestrian Action!

    A press event coming up from our friends at the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition: Getting Around on Foot: New Report on Pedestrian Safety Needs and Call to Action for Better Walking Conditions Regionally WHAT The Willamette Pedestrian Coalition (WPC) will soon release its Getting Around on Foot Action Plan, a study and report which identifies pedestrian…

  • Streetcar Equity

    I’ve been banging the transit equity drum quite a bit lately, so I probably owe it to folks to open a discussion about some of the equity issues we need to sort out as we prepare to open the Streetcar Loop in a couple of years. These are issues that are beginning to be discussed…

  • Let Me Say that Again

    It’s my fault, I buried the lead. In yesterday’s post, I laid out what I think are four legitimate policy questions about how we manage our transit system. And I saved what I thought was the best for last. Apparently, no one could get past the first one, as that was the focus of all…