Category: Talking About Transportation

  • Sport Columnist Conflates Streetcar, Trailblazers

    I wouldn’t even have seen it if a reader had not e-mailed me a link, since I don’t regulary read the sports page, but yesterday Dwight Jaynes’ commentary in the Portland Tribune suggests that the “keep Portland wierd” foks are winning, wondering when we’ll stop building Streetcars and start rattling Paul Allen’s cage about keeping…

  • Fascinating

    Via the SHIFT list, an info-graphic that I could look at all day.

  • See the Share the Road Mural

    I can’t think of a better way to celebrate a multi-modal city! Here are the particulars from Sara Stout: After many months of planning and three weeks of painting, the Share the Road Mural on SE Hawthorne Blvd. is now almost finished! We will be working on the final touches during the next few day’s…

  • It’s About Time

    Gordon Price, the urban guru/former Vancouver, B.C. City Councilor, has finally started a blog. It’s already programmed into my RSS reader. For those of you who may not have been familiar Price Tags, Gordon’s e-mail/PDF newsletter, his insights are not to be missed.

  • Trans Trib

    It almost seems that today’s Portland Tribune is only about transportation! Discussion of shelters for the new transit mall. Is the business community trying to unshelter the mall? Regular Portland Transport contributor Bob Richardson is quoted. New development is cutting off connections in the SW Trail network. This network serves as an alternative to the…