Category: Transportation Planning

  • Student Project Addresses Washington Park Access and Circulation

    This is a project of a Masters of Urban and Regional Planning student at PSU: Washington Park Transportation Survey If you are concerned about transportation issues at Washington Park, have had trouble getting there or getting around, or would just like to provide your thoughts, you are invited to complete this Washington Park Transportation Survey.…

  • Hell Freezes Over

    1000 Friends, Triple-A and the truckers (and others) agree on a transportation agenda.

  • Build Your Own HCT System

    Metro has launched a tool that lets you select your own set of High Capacity Transit corridors, which will then be scored on cost, ridership and other factors. Take it out for a spin.

  • Your Opportunity to Study Transportation Governance

    The City Club is about to study transportation governance. Here is the charge for the study (PDF, 58K) (full disclosure – I was a member of the committee that drafted the charge). City Club is poised to launch two new comprehensive studies and is looking for volunteers to serve on research committees. The first of…

  • What Next?

    The region has been gradually building out our high capacity transit (HCT) system based on a plan that is now about a quarter century old, and much of that vision has been fulfilled. So what happens now? Metro and TriMet have undertaken a new High Capacity Transit system plan effort, and I’ve been involved peripherally…