Portland Transport

Category: Transportation Funding

  • Congestion = Prosperity?

    Rex passes along the following link from yesterday’s NY Times Magazine: The Way We Live Now: Speed Bump While talking about tolling as the increasing preferred approach to deal with congestion, it suggests this newly emerging perspective: The overarching new credo is that gridlock shouldn’t be conceived of as a problem or a mark of…

  • Making Sausage … and Budgets

    I no longer sit on TPAC, but I still get the agenda packet notices (anyone can request them). I want to call attention to a process that gets started at this Friday’s meeting that perhaps does not get the public attention that it should. One of the things our region does very well is speak…

  • Tolling in the New Year

    Today’s Tribune editorializes favorably on tolling as a funding strategy as an alternative to growing congestion…

  • GPS Tolling Gets a Trial in Seattle

    What if I said that I had a magic bullet that would guarantee citizens significantly less auto traffic congestion and provide beleaguered transportation departments with much-needed funds. How could you say no? And yet, tolls and congestion pricing have long been considered political suicide in the U.S. However, in the face of shrinking transportation budgets…

  • Report from the Budget Forum: Too Much Advocacy?

    Last night a large group crowded into the Plaza Conference Room at the World Trade Center downtown to help give input on how PDOT should deal with a large gap in their budget. The attendees were certainly engaged, but perhaps a little biased. It appears that certain stakeholder groups responded very strongly to Commissioner Adams’…