Category: Open Threads

  • The (Almost) Ides of March Madness Open Thread

    It’s mid-March!  Which means that this weekend Caesar will be stabbed, brackets will be filled out, and the weather starts to look like spring.  Recently, PT has been focusing on the Columbia River Crossing, but there has been plenty of other transit related news, good and bad of late. Two stories on TriMet ridership.  Joseph…

  • Open Thread – Fat Tuesday Edition

    What’s on your mind?

  • Chinese New Year/Super Bowl open thread.

    Gung hei fat choi! Time for another open thread: More of the same for TriMet and ATU. Metro wants to fast-track the UGB expansions approved in 2011, which have been held up by court challenges. Several upcoming meetings for  the Southwest Corridor and the Contrary to popular belief, bicycle commuting is not just for yuppies.…

  • Open Thread: New Year’s Edition

    What are your thoughts about transportation in the new year?

  • Open Thread for week of Dec 15, 2013

    Only ten more shopping days ’til you-know-what. Alon Levy with an excellent primer on Positive Train Control (as it is known in the US). Joseph Rose reminisces about a bus mounted on a ski lift. Bike Portland reports that the State of Oregon denies unemployment compensation to a man whose job relocates to a place…