Portland Transport

Category: Transportation Funding

  • How We Pay for Rail Expansion Matters

    I’m looking forward to the Milwaukie Light Rail project opening around 2015. It’s an important expansion of our regional LRT network and will improve connectivity across the river dramatically for transit, bikes and pedestrians at the south end of the Central City. But I’m disappointed by one element of the funding strategy. TriMet will issue…

  • TriMet begins comment period on FY2011 Federal Transit Funding

    See TriMet’s press release here. Send your formal comments to TriMet by 5pm Wednesday, April 21. Share your informal (but polite, and on-topic, as always) comments here.

  • Updated: Portland Streetcar Awarded $23M in TIGER Funds

    Update: 3/9/10 In the comments to this post I was asked if the grant was for the entire Innovation Quadrant program, or if it applied to the Moody component only. I learned last week that in fact the grant amount awarded is only for Moody. We’ll need to keep looking for funding for the Sustainability…

  • Act on ACT Act

    Pun intended. I’m a bit slow to the party on this. The BTA already has a post up about Earl Blumenauer’s Active Community Transportation Act. I encourage you to follow their lead on supporting this bill that would set aside $2B for active transportation.

  • How City Club Would Flow the Money

    Last week I wrote about the new City Club report (PDF 5.5M) on transportation governance. I’d like to dig in a little deeper this week, starting with finances. Excerpted from the report is this chart showing how transportation dollars flow into and through the region today, and how City Club would suggest reorganizing this. Fundamentally…