Portland Transport

Category: Pedestrians

  • Indulging My Obsession with Crosswalks

    www.flickr.com portlandtransport’s Prague Crosswalks photoset Regular readers will know that I have a bit of a thing about our crosswalks (or lack thereof) in Portland and like to bring back examples from other cities that take them seriously. So here are two examples from Prague. The first is a run-of-the-mill crosswalk found at most corners…

  • Burnside Transportation and Urban Design Plan

    Over at commissionersam.com the Commish is blogging about controversy over the Burnside Couplet plan. I urge readers to attend the Town Hall mentioned to learn more about the project and put your views on record. As neighborhood transportation chair in Northwest Portland I had the opportunity to participate in two year-plus-long planning processes around the…

  • On Being a Transit-Assisted Pedestrian

    I don’t think of myself as a transit rider, although I certainly ride transit frequently. I don’t even think of myself primarily as a bicycle rider, although when I go to the office, it’s most often on my bike. My primary identification is as a pedestrian. Most of my travel around the city is on…

  • Report from Portland Pedestrian Summit II

    My experience of Ped Summit II began when I boarded the #45 bus in downtown Portland. Over the next few blocks, 3 or 4 more transportation advocates boarded the bus, and on the way to Multnomah Village, the driver regaled us with the comparative advantages of the #44 versus his #45 to get us to…

  • Crosswalks: A Matter of Culture?

    Or, what I did on my vacation. As a neighborhood activist, I have frequently heard the question, “why don’t we stripe more crosswalks?” The stock-in-trade answer of the traffic engineers in Portland is that drivers are not sufficiently aware of crosswalks and they give pedestrians a false sense of security. This has always struck me…