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Serendipitous Transit Center
A silver lining in every cloud… Due to the sewer and street reconstruction on NW 23rd the #15 bus has been re-routed down NW 21st. While annoying, this has temporarily created something that I’ve always though NW needed: a transit center. Four transit lines pass next to Good Samaritan Hospital but don’t actually meet in…
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Sponsors Examine CRC Performance Criteria
The Columbia River Crossing Project Sponsors Council is meeting next on the 22nd. From the project: VANCOUVER – The Columbia River Crossing Project Sponsors Council will discuss performance goals and objectives focused on long-term management of the transportation corridor at its Jan. 22 meeting in Vancouver. CRC is believed to be the only large-scale, multi-modal…
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Focus on Safety
Everything’s coming up safety this week: Mayor Adams has scheduled the 2010 Portland Transportation Safety Summit: 4th Annual Transportation Safety Summit February 16, 2010, 6:30 – 8:30 pm University of Oregon – White Stag Building 70 NW Couch St., Portland (convenient to Old Town MAX station) RSVP to sharon.white@hotmail.com Childcare can be provided with at…
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The Death of TSUB?
For a couple of decades, if you wanted to get Federal funding for a transit project, TSUB was your bane of your existance. “Transit System User Benefit” was a complicated computer model that scored your project, essentially rating you on how far and how fast you moved people. It was all about mobility and not…