Category: Talking About Transportation

  • Affordable Housing is Not Enough

    Over at the BTA Blog, Evan has a great post on the affordability of transportation as a portion of household spending. This is driven from the Coalition for a Livable Future/PSU Regional Equity Atlas. Check it out and comment over there.

  • Think Harder

    Ron Buel had a very nice op-ed in yesterday’s Trib suggesting we go even further than some of the ideas in the Trib’s special issue on transportation.

  • Streetcar Charlie at PSU

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Charlie Hales, HDR, Inc. Topic: How Portland is Taking America Back to the Future – the National Streetcar Movement and the Changing Urban Landscape When: Friday, January 19, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center (www.pdx.edu/map.html) [Unfortunately, this is counterscheduled with the…

  • Transportation History Blogged

    Scott Cohen has started a new blog on the history of transportation in Portland. Welcome to the blogosphere, Scott. Check it out.

  • Trib Editorial Page Given Over to Transportation

    Tuesday’s Trib features a lead editorial supporting tolling on a replacement Columbia River Crossing bridge. The letters to the editor are all in response to the special issue on transportation.