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82nd Avenue Transportation Workshop
From the Active Rights of Way (AROW) mailing list: If you are interested in improving 82nd Avenue, please get this meeting on your calendar; September 24 at 7:00 PM. One of the often mentioned obstacles to improving 82nd Avenue is that it’s under ODOT jurisdiction. Your attendance at this meeting will help give our public…
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PBOT Getting Into Parklets?
Looks like the City is rolling out a “Street Seats” program where you too can turn a parking space into a little bit of urbanism. Let’s hope the pilot program gets some traction. Congratulations to Rebecca Hamilton who pitched this idea as a student project in the Traffic and Transportation class in 2010!
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A few new TriMet service surprises
TriMet has now announced all the details (i.e. detailed schedules) of its service changes which will take affect Sept 2. While most of the changes should be no surprise, given the intense debate over them back during the spring budget discussions, there are a few interesting surprises. Cameron Johnson has a good write-up over at…
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How the Feds COULD help urban transit operations*
*without spending any money. I put “COULD” in all-caps because it’s not clear there is much interest in DC for doing so, for various reasons. It took forever to pass a transportation bill, and the one that did pass wasn’t particularly friendly to transit: the Administration wanted any sort of stimulus it could get and…
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Open Trip Planner Goes Production at TriMet
I’ve enthused here before about what a game changer the Open Trip Planner is. TriMet has just announced that their implementation, which has been in beta for a number of months (and which many folks I know use as their first choice for a trip planning) is now released in production. Happy trips!