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Oregonian opposes TriMet bond measure 26-119
In this morning’s Oregonian, the editorial board came out against Measure 26-119, the TriMet sponsored bond measure which would continue the soon-to-expire Westside MAX bonds, in order to pay for numerous enhancements to the bus system, particularly to help out the disabled.
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Eastside Openings this Week
The East Burnside/Couch couplet has been in operation (and refinement) for a couple of months now, but the official ribbon cutting will be Tuesday at 9AM. In terms of real change on the transportation system, I hope the new signaling system for bikes as they cross the freeway entrance at Williams on NE Broadway (installed…
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What Point in our Region Has the Most Access to Destinations via Transit?
According to the work for our Transit Equity project, SW 10th and Yamhill is the winner with a 93 Transit Score. I couldn’t find any points on the Transit Mall higher than 92. My guess is that the access to the additional destinations reached by Streetcar provides a slight edge. Of course our process just…
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Not-to-be-missed Webinar
This summer I enthused about a presentation by Dr. Eric France, a preventative medicine specialist from Kaiser in Denver who was visiting our region to learning about cycling here. Dr. France is back home and is about to give the presentation as a webinar on Monday from 11am-noon (that’s 12-1 Mountain Time). If you didn’t…
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One of the Keys to Sustainable Freight: Full Trucks
I’m serving on a small working group that is trying to develop some high-level ideas for how the City of Portland could encourage more sustainable freight. It’s a little bit of a mind-bender, because all of my urban design sensibilities push for smaller vehicles. But in fact from a fuel efficiency perspective, there is a…