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A Class Unto Themselves
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure to be part of the panel providing feedback on student presentations at the PSU/City of Portland Traffic and Transporation Class (a training ground for transportation activists that yours truly is an alumnus of). Under an agreement with the class organizers, Portland Transport is the official online respository…
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Transportation All Over Local Blogosphere
The local political blogs had a transportation focus in the last couple of days: Blue Oregon has posts on Rex’ op-ed and Peter DeFazio’s skepticism about privately-owned toll roads. Meanwhile, Loaded Orygun takes on the Columbian’s coverage of polling about the Columbia River Crossing.
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“Dwell”ing on Portland
A reader passed on a link to an article in Dwell magazine (for those not familiar, the magazine covers modern architecture with a hip sort of spin). The article covers transportation in the West in general, but if you make your way all the way to page 3, you’ll find the insight that in Portland,…
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Gordon Price Speaking Tomorrow
Always entertaining and informative: The City of Portland Office of Transportation and Portland State University welcome GORDON PRICE Mr. Price is Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University, a former five-term Vancouver, BC City Councillor and an entertaining speaker on land use and transportation. He will speak on Wednesday, November 29, from 6:40…
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What’s in a Headline?
Monday’s O had a piece by Jim Mayer on the Regional Transportation Plan. It did a good job of pointing out the resource disparity and contrasted the “we have to do more with less” point of view (Rex Burkholder) with the “we need to think big and find new funding sources” perspective (Clackamas County Commissioner…