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Do You Roll Onto Streetcar?
If so, PBOT and Streetcar would like your help on evaluating the service conditions: The Portland Bureau of Transportation and Portland Streetcar are performing some research on our vehicles and how we are serving the needs of the community that uses mobility devises. We are recruiting people of all ages that use crutches, walkers, wheel…
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June 2012 Open Thread
Summertime is almost upon us. Clackamas County is trying to figure out how to pay for its Milwaukie MAX contribution. As noted previously, the sheriff would rather they didn’t. The excellent Strong Towns blog takes a few whacks at the civil engineering profession The Portland Mercury considers the anti “Portland Creep” movement in Clackamas County.…
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Updated: Hot Ticket: Enrique Peñalosa
Update: 5/29/12 For those who couldn’t get in the room, a video of the presentation is now available from the good folks at Crank My Chain: http://www.crankmychain.com/enrique-penalosa/planning-cities-for-people-an-international-perspective-video_5ee3f1c62.html Original Post: 5/1/12 Several local organizations have partnered to bring urban transportation rock star Enrique Peñalosa to Portland. Tickets are free, but limited. The only way to get…
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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)…