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How City Club Would Flow the Money
Last week I wrote about the new City Club report (PDF 5.5M) on transportation governance. I’d like to dig in a little deeper this week, starting with finances. Excerpted from the report is this chart showing how transportation dollars flow into and through the region today, and how City Club would suggest reorganizing this. Fundamentally…
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Metro President Candidates on Bikes, Peds and Freight
The fifth and final installment of our series on responses to our candidate questionnaire. Please remember the ground rules on comments for this series There are some special rules for comments on these posts. As a 501(c)(3), Portland Transport cannot and does not endorse candidates. So please no comments of the form “you should vote…
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Metro President Candidates on Transit
Part Four of our series on responses to our candidate questionnaire. Please remember the ground rules on comments for this series There are some special rules for comments on these posts. As a 501(c)(3), Portland Transport cannot and does not endorse candidates. So please no comments of the form “you should vote for _______ because…
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City Club’s Big Ideas for Transportation Governance
City Club of Portland has just released its transportation governance study report: “Moving Forward: A Better Way to Govern Regional Transportation” (PDF, 5.5M). Among the big ideas for reforming transportation governance in our region: Shift most of the money that ODOT spends inside the region (other than for the freeway system) to be programmed by…