Following up on our initial questions about cases in which the Nextbus arrival information system used by Portland Streetcar might be not entirely accurate, two PSU class project teams took their own look. I had a chance to sit in on the team project presentations, which are now posted online. The headline is that while…

What’s in a name? Well, maybe not much in Shakespeare’s time, but in our present-day society of perception-beats-reality, word association means quite a bit. This article, relayed via Planetizen, discusses this concept with respect to rail-based transportation: Streetcar vs. Light Rail “It bugs me that such an awkward, engineering-specific term – light rail – has…

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An article in today’s Oregonian outlines the debate at the Federal level on using transit funding as a tool for economic development versus just transportation (in my opinion not instead of transportation, but in addition to it). The article suggests that this may be an issue for the Streetcar Loop project. I don’t think that’s…

Yesterday’s Willamette Week identified my as part of the local transportation mafia. So be it. I’ll be happy to take some small credit for the wonderful alternative transportation options we have here in the region. But it went on to paint the following picture: Local transit industry makes contributions to Earl Blumenaur’s PAC Earl’s PAC…