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Cost of Congestion at City Club
The Cost of Congestion: How Traffic Jams Waste More Than Just Your Time City Club Friday Forum – March 31, 2006 Panelists: Jay T. Waldron, President of Port of Portland Commission and Co-Chair of Metro’s Transportation Investment Task Force Ann Gardner, Government Relations Manager, Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. Michael Powell, Powell’s City of Books According…
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Transportation as Plumbing, Considering the RTP Update
At Wednesday’s MPAC meeting, Metro Councilor Rod Park gave a briefing to MPAC on the update to the Regional Transportation Plan that is now being launched. For the first time, the region’s land use and transportation plans are being updated at the same time, a unique opportunity to really examine our regions priorities. A few…
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The Westside Bypass Rears its Ugly Head Again
At the last meeting of the Columbia River Crossing Taskforce participants got a first glimpse of the all of the potential transportation improvements that are being considered for I-5 across the Columbia River. Much to my alarm the list includes a couple of ideas that smack of what was considered a done deal in 1988…
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OBA Seeks Policy Analysts
I just saw a note from Jim Zehren, chair of the board of the Oregon Business Association. OBA is looking for one or two full- or part-time policy analysts in areas that include sustainability, energy and environmental issues; health; education; transportation; taxes and public finance; and “good government” (state governance issues). Interested parties should contact…
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Joined at the Hip
Of course we all know that land use and transportation are two sides of the coin. But mapping the connections and figuring out how to plan based on them is never simple. A new report from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute goes a long way to help us understand the web of interplay. Land Use…