Portland Transport

Category: Safety

  • Cost of Safety Getting Some Analysis

    Last week was a bit busy, and I didn’t have time to comment on the new Metro Safety Report. Jonathan has an excellent write-up over a BikePortland, so I won’t try to rehash it here. But the bottom line is that the cost of crashes is greater than the cost of congestion…

  • The catch-22 of bicycle safety

    As many of you have heard, a few nights ago a 29-year old woman riding her bicycle downtown was struck and killed by a truck. Several weeks ago, an 11-year old boy in Vancouver was struck and killed by a C-TRAN bus. The response in more than a few media sources was “oh dear, urban…

  • Crime cars and crime roads

    The statistics are staggering. According to a study conducted in the 1990s over a six-year period, over 200 Americans were killed and over 12,000 injured were documented in over ten thousand road rage incidents. These statistics only count documented road rage incidents, where a police report and/or insurance claim was filed; countless other instances of…

  • Seems Like it was Just Last Year

    That Portland had it’s first traffic safety summit. But here we are at year six… SAVE THE DATE MARCH 13 for the SIXTH TRANSPORTATION SAFETY SUMMIT WHEN: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:30-9:00 PM WHERE: Jefferson High School, 5210 N Kerby Portland, OR 97217 The Sixth Transportation Safety Summit kicks off with a Community Initiatives Poster…

  • More on the “panic stop” incident

    Joseph Rose has more information about a TriMet passenger who was injured in the “panic stop” incident earlier this month. As you probably have heard, on December 2nd, a bike darted directly in front of the #9 bus, which was standing-room only, forcing the driver to panic-stop. The driver narrowly avoided missing the cyclist, who…