Portland Transport

Category: Pedestrians

  • Walking in Seattle

    Rex passes on this pointer to a discussion from our neighbors to the north on sidewalks and pedestrian issues…

  • Walking, Health and Engineering

    Over at Blue Oregon, Leslie Carlson has written a great piece about the health benefits of walking and how opportunities for walking have been engineered out of our society. Read and comment there…

  • Crosswalks of the Netherlands

    You knew it was coming. My obsession with crosswalks had to include some snaps of pedestrian crossings in the Netherlands. So here they are…

  • More on Prague Sidewalks

    www.flickr.com portlandtransport’s Prague Sidewalk Repair photoset Just getting ready to leave Prague for Amsterdam, and wanted share these photos or repair work on the cobbled sidewalks. The willingness to dedicate labor costs – it’s all hand work – to the public realm is very impressive.

  • Designing Communities with the Pedestrian in Mind

    Rob Zako passes this along. Perhaps we can organize a carpool from Portland to Salem. Please join us on Tuesday, November 15, for a presentation on transportation-efficient development by Tom Hylton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Save Our Land, Save Our Towns. Hylton will discuss land use and urban design techniques for reducing…