Portland Transport

Category: Sustainability

  • City of Portland Fleet Gets Smarter

    This came over the transom yesterday afternoon: CITY AHEAD OF THE CURVE WITH THE ADDITION OF SMART CARS You’re invited to take a ride and learn more about the new Smart cars on Wednesday the 30th. MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: Mary Volm 503-823-7785 May 29.2007 CITY AHEAD OF THE CURVE WITH THE ADDITION OF SMART CARS…

  • One Less Van

    Hat tip to the alert reader who caught this press release from the Doubletree Hotel, Lloyd Center. As part of an overall effort to reduce carbon impacts, they have dumped their Airport Shuttle and are encouraging patrons to use Airport MAX.

  • Green Streets Good for Business

    Sam is pushing Green Streets (streets with treatments like swales that capture and filter stormwater) and the Daily Journal of Commerce is suggesting they could be good for business. Bonus: we get more curb extensions :-)

  • Hybrid Heaven

    Courtesy of Richard “Creative Class” Florida, it’s official: Metropolitan areas where hybrids are most popular Rank Metropolitan Area Hybrids per 1000 Households* Portland, OR 11.19 San Francisco, CA 8.76 Monterey, CA 6.83 Santa Barbara, CA 6.08 Los Angeles 5.60 Bend, OR 5.35 Washington, DC 5.06 San Diego 5.00 Charlottesville, VA 4.87 Eugene 4.64 Seattle 4.26…

  • The Eddington Report

    The “Stern Report”, a policy document providing advice to the British government on climate change has gotten a fair amount of notice in the press lately. A very similar document published in January, the Eddington Report, has not drawn as much attention, but as it focuses on transportation policy, should be very interesting to readers…