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Metro President Candidates: Vision and Policy
This week we’ll be publishing the responses to our candidate questionnaire, starting with the vision and policy questions today. Unfortunately Mayor Hughes has yet to reply to our questionnaire. If he does respond, we’ll include his responses and update these posts when he does. Meanwhile we’ll proceed with the responses from Rex Burkholder and Bob…
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City Club Report on Transportation Governance Due Thursday
A City Club of Portland research committee has been looking at transportation governance in our region for the last year or so, and they are scheduled to release their report this Thursday, February 25 (look here on Thursday). I had the privilege of helping brief the committee at the outset of their work on how…
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Sam Looking for Some CRC Nuance?
At both last week’s Transportation Cabinet meeting and during a panel discussion on KBOO, I’ve heard Sam express some ideas that I find encouraging as ways to focus the Columbia River Crossing project: The CRC acts as a freeway, an arterial and a local street at the same time. The design should comprehend these different…
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Second Best ROI: ITS
For the last month or so I’ve been banging the drum that cycling is the absolute best return on investment for transportation dollars (and Thank You! Portland City Council for adopting the Bicycle Plan for 2030). So what comes after that? I think Intelligent Transportation Systems are a good candidate for next highest Return on…
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Guvs Talk Tough on CRC
Governors Kulongoski and Gregoire have responded to the letter from local officials asking for more local control and review of the Columbia River Crossing project: NO. “We feel strongly this project must go forward without delay,” Kulongoski and Gregoire wrote in their letter. Coverage by the Trib and a particularly trenchant comparison to the Alaska…