Portland Transport

Category: Projects

  • Tram Visit Anecdotes and Other Observations

    I had some free time yesterday afternoon (12/19/2006), so I visited both endpoints of the tram to check it out in operation. (I am not an OHSU employee, so I did not try to board.) The first thing I noticed was just how quiet the Tram actually is… you could not hear the cables or…

  • Whoops! Did I say that?

    Update: 12/18/06 Rex’s piece ran as an op-ed in today’s O, with a response piece from Gregg Weston of OTAK. Gregg’s comeback is that we should set “audacious goals” for transportation. Hmmm… should our transportation goals be audacious? Or should our transportation goals be modest and our land use goals audacious? Or some combination thereof?…

  • Columbia Crossing Attitudes – Quantitative

    Last week we explored the focus group results from the Columbia Crossing task force. At the end of the week, the quantitative results from the task force polling came out. The Oregonian covered these, focusing on the fact that the results from Clark County are more favorably disposed to Light Rail than in the past.…

  • Report from the First Ever

    About 10 hearty Portland Transport stalwarts braved rain and high winds to meet at Wynne’s last night. After about 30 minutes of socializing we heard a presentation from Jay Lyman, head of the consultant team for the Columbia River Cross (accompanied by Linda Mullen from the project’s communication team). Jay gamely fielded questions for almost…

  • Columbia Crossing Attitudes

    The Columbia Crossing project recently completed a round of focus groups with folks from both the Oregon and Washington sides of the river. It’s not on the project web site, but after hearing a summary at TPAC, I was able to obtain a copy of the focus group report and scan it (PDF 574K). Keeping…