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Help Shape Regional Transportation Policy
Metro is recruiting for citizen representatives to serve on TPAC. To be sure, it’s heavily technocratic, but the several years I spent on TPAC were a tremendous learning experience, and you do get to nudge a little bit on the direction of policy: September 18, 2009 Dear TPAC Interested Parties: The Transportation Policy Alternatives Committee…
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Metro Releases RTP Draft in Context of a Fixed UGB
Metro Chief Operating Officer Michael Jordan released his recommendations for Metro’s Greatest Place plan (a combination land use and transportation planning effort). This is a formality, the COO recommendation is in fact the synthesis of work done by staff and approved by advisory committees of elected officials (JPACT and MPAC). The plan is unique in…
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CNU Transportation Summit in Portland in November
The Congress for New Urbanism will hold its Transportation Summit here in Portland from November 4th to 6th. Get all the details.
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Transit Envy
Local mayors are griping that they are too far down the list of projects in the regional High Capacity Transit plan. Cool … these folks used to fight about highway dollars!
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The Policy and Politics of MPOs
Via Planetizen. An article in Citiwire suggests that Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) are actually pretty good at planning, but lack the authority to put their plans into action. Portland, where Metro plays the federally-mandated role of MPO, is one of the few places where the MPO has real authority. But even here the politics are…