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My Dinner with Corrado
Last week, I had the delightful opportunity join a small group for dinner with Corrado Poli (warning, it’s in Italian). Poli is a professor of “Economics and Environmental Ethics” in Padua. He is in the U.S. on a fellowship at Johns Hopkins to do an English translation of his book “Rivoluzione Traffica” (Traffic Revolution). Poli…
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Congestion in Core Portland is Killing People and Businesses
Paul Edgar is a retired business automation consultant who has been active in transportation issues for more the 10-years in the Portland/Vancouver region. Last year he was one of the students with the PSU/PDOT transportation class. Congestion in core Portland is killing people and businesses. We do not have the desire or the finances to…
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The Challenges of Governing
It’s hard to think of a more assertive alternative transportation advocate then Rex Burkholder. Yet now in elected office and chair of JPACT, which sets transportation policy for the region, he’s getting criticized for not being bold enough by some advocates. This is highlighted in an interview in the Daily Journal of Commerce today. My…
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Agreeing with Mel
It’s not often that Mel Zucker and I agree. But I agree that TriMet turning down his request for boarding/deboarding counts on the basis of security is off the wall. In the past TriMet has often provided such counts to my neighborhood when we were evaluating routing options or potential stop re-locations. Can we have…
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Putting All the Pieces Together
Tuesday’s Trib had an article (“River of cars runs through it“) about the traffic that divides the South Portland neighborhood (formerly known as Corbett-Terwilliger-Lair Hill) into pieces. A whole series of fixes is needed to remedy this and the neighborhood is justifiably impatient at the rate of implementation.