Category: Roads

  • Less Driving = Nicer Driving?

    Word came down yesterday that Portland has ranked in a survey as having the most courteous drivers in the country. A piece I heard on OPB opined that this was because we had shorter commutes and were thus less frustrated. Let me take that a step further and hypothesize a link from have having lower…

  • Advanced Topics in Congestion

    At the last TPAC workshop on the Regional Transportation Plan update, Metro presented their research on roadway conditions (freeways and arterials). There are some very interesting ways to visualize the situation. [Note: click on any slide to see a larger (and clearer) version.] A table showing what portion of our freeway and arterial network is…

  • I-5 to 99W Connector open houses

    From Metro Councilor Rex Burkholder’s monthly newsletter. By the way, I think this project gets an award for abuse of a blogging platform. The project web site is based on Word Press (kudos) and features an RSS feed. But… the most recent item in the RSS feed is from Sep 2005 (lame). The I-5 to…

  • Breakdown in Communications?

    Yesterday’s O has lengthy piece on the divide between PDOT management and the road paving crews in the Bureau of Maintenance. The argument boils down to the central office folks saying (and the Auditor agreeing) that best practices (and in some cases State law) are not being followed, while the crews say they know best…

  • Plotting Traffic

    Here’s a fun Google Maps mashup from Southern California. Hat tip to Kari Chilsom Chisholm for the pointer.