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The case against the I-5 Broadway Widening Project as Currently Proposed
Guest contributor Allan Rudwick is chair of the Eliot Neighborhood Association Editor’s note: As a member of the Planning and Sustainability Commission I will be voting on this plan in the next few weeks. Publishing this guest post should not be construed as an indication of my views on the plan – but simply as…
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Reader Question: Why does TriMet run the 84?
A Portland Transport reader (who may identify himself in the comments if he wishes to) emailed in the following question:Dear PortlandTransport, Now that I know PortlandTransport has a whole stable of contributors, I am wondering if any of you may know the skinny on line 84. The other day I was looking at the TriMet…
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Metro releases initial proposals for TV Highway
A metro study group has released a list of proposals for improving mobility/access in the TV Highway corridor. The list operates on the assumption that TV Highway will continue to function as an urban boulevard, and will not be converted into a more expressway-like facility, as Washington County planners had envisioned in earlier times. Some…
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The Top Ten Problems of purpose and need statements
While we await the announced “vision, goals, and objectives” for the Southwest Corridor project, recently approved by the project’s steering committee, it is time to consider the Top Ten Problems of such documents. The purpose of a purpose-and-need statement (I’m assuming that “vision, goals, and objectives” is the same thing) is to define, at a…
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What would $2 billion of BRT look like?
Over on their Facebook page, OPAL links to an old Jarrett Walker column from three years ago, “bus-rail debates in a beautiful abstract city, and in los angeles“. In it, he poses the question of which is a better use of transit dollars: Building more expensive types of infrastructure (such as rail or high-end BRT)…