Portland Transport

Category: Streetscapes

  • Sidewalks Holding Up Regional Center?

    An article in this morning’s Daily Journal of Commerce suggests that figuring out how to pay for sidewalks is slowing the development of the pedestrian distract in the Gateway Regional Center.

  • Gragg Disses Couplet as “an unrelenting sameness”

    In Sunday’s Oregonian Randy Gragg casts the Burnside/Couch couplet debate as a battle between “Road People” and “Urban People”. Apparently Randy would put me in the “Road” coalition, which I find ironic given my efforts on alternative transportation.

  • To Sidewalk or Not to Sidewalk?

    From yesterday’s Trib: “The No. 1 amount of calls we get from Southwest Portland is people saying they want sidewalks. The No. 2 is people saying they don’t want sidewalks,” Chlapowski said. I come down in favor of sidewalks in general. Without them it’s pretty hard to get to transit.

  • Brick Update

    Update: 1/25/07 The bricks rated coverage in Today’s O. Original Post: 1/15/07 A few months back, at the intersection of 6th & Taylor, TriMet installed some new sand-set pavers as a test for potentially using them in the Transit Mall reconstruction. A reader recently queried me on whether I knew how the test was going,…

  • From Traffic Cams to BobbieCams?

    Via Slashdot. Too bizzare to pass over. Apparently the London police are so happy with the ability to use the ANPR (Automatic Plate Number Recongition) technology from London’s cordon pricing system, they’re taking the next step: cameras on the helmets of bobbies. Should we check on where ODOT’s traffic cams are being fed to?