Portland Transport

Category: Transportation Funding

  • Toll Road Moving Forward in Newberg

    OPB is reporting that today the Oregon Transportation Commission approved a $20M pre-development agreement with Australian based Macquarie to investigate three potential toll road projects, starting with the Newberg-Dundee bypass.

  • Advising PDOT

    As I’ve mentioned before, this year I’m sitting on PDOT’s budget advisory committee. We met last week to digest the results of the outreach and to review staff’s preliminary recommendations on cuts. The meeting opened with a review of the public outreach. There was a lot of discussion about whether there was a bias from…

  • Virtual Busways on Toll Lanes?

    Dave Brook forwarded this interesting piece from the San Fancisco Chronicle on merging tolls with bus rapid transit. While the idea is up for consideration in the Bay Area, it apparently is going to be tried in Houston. The basic idea is to put toll lanes alongside regular lanes, and control usage of the toll…

  • Tolling Technology Advances

    I believe further evidence that tolling is likely to be in our future can be found in an article in yesterday’s New York Times about advances in tolling technology and use.

  • The Oregon Business Plan and Transportation

    Today was the big Oregon Business Plan Summit. Besides a fun session in which Harvard’s Michael Porter analyzed the plan (more on his presentation in another post), of course I immediately went to the transportation section of the plan. Beyond the predictable priorities like the Columbia Crossing, there were some encouragingly progressive ideas: