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What Does the Tappen Zee Tell Us About the CRC?
East coast transportation geeks have been left with their jaws hanging, wondering what happened to the Tappen Zee Bridge project. The project, which might once have been an example of a better way to do a mega-project, was scoped to add Commuter Rail and BRT to a highway corridor. But co-incident with the project being…
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A Little Streetcar Music
Here’s a bit of an entertainment diversion for the weekend. Just over a month ago, several groups came together to produce an event called “Portland’s Streetcar Mobile Music Fest”, which featured eight different bands or performers on a series of streetcars over a three-hour period. The event was quite well-received, and many riders turned out…
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Is TriMet Getting Some Hybrid Lift Vehicles?
via Streetsblog: I haven’t heard anything about this locally, but this DOT document (PDF) contains a fairly cryptic item: Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) Project: Transit Vehicle Replacement (Mini-Hybrid) Amount: $5,000,000 TriMet will use funds to replace buses in its fleet that are beyond their useful lives with minihybrid technology buses. Or am…
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The proposed Metro UGB expansion into South Cooper Mountain
In this month’s open thread, it was noted that Metro was considering an expansion of the urban growth boundary, which will be voted on at Thursday’s council meeting. Metro staff proposed a recommendation containing a list of ten sites (three industrial, and seven residential/commercial); of these ten, three were initially endorsed by the acting Chief…
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Connecting Bicycle and Rail Networks
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Ronald Tamse (City of Utrecht, Netherlands) Topic: Lessons from Utrecht: Connecting Bicycle and Rail Networks When: Friday, October 21, 2011, 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204