Portland Transport

Category: Transportation Economics

  • Report from the Bi-State Forum

    I attended the Bi-State Metropolitan Forum (subtitled: Building a Healthy Economy for Oregon and Washington) yesterday. We were addressed by Mayor Potter of Portland and Mayor Pollard of Vancouver, and both Governors, as well as Metro President David Bragdon and an economic development expert from Rhode Island. The Columbia River Crossing was a recurrent transportation…

  • Bi-State Forum March 16th

    Jill Fuglister passes on this notice of the Bi-State economic development forum coming up next week. Transportation is definitely on the agenda: Bi-State Metropolitan Forum: Building a Healthy Economy for Oregon and Washington Thursday, March 16, 8:30 am-3 pm Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom, Portland State University Hosted by the Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies…

  • Tax Policy, Car Ads and Warning Labels

    A fellow wonk recently passed on this article to me: “On the Road Again: How Tax Policy Drives Transportation Choices” by Roberta F. Mann. You can find it online here (you have to jump through some hoops to read it).

  • The Regional Business Plan on Transportation

    Last week I attended the Oregon Business Plan Summit. The Summit was also the occasion of the release of the first ever Regional Business Plan. Just as I found many things to like in the state plan, there is much to like about the regional plan. I could hardly have written a better set of…

  • NY Times Calls for Higher Gas Taxes

    This morning the NY Times editorialized in favor of higher federal gas taxes “to connect our crises and our consumption in a coherent way.”