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Revisiting the Stimulus and Transit
The word on the street is that after some small victories in the House ($3B added to capital funding for transit) there will be another fight in the Senate where various amendments are being proposed to strip transit funds and move them to highways, or to simply add $50B to highways. Meanwhile the New York…
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Fare is Fair? A look (back) at TriMet ticket machine performance
Back in June, Portland Mercury reporter Matt Davis and I spent a Sunday checking out ticket machines along the MAX Yellow Line and portions of the original Blue Line. We took along my video camera to document the results. Matt wrote up an article at the time, but my video project wasn’t completed until recently.…
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Bragdon Takes Oregonian to Task on CRC
In a letter-to-the-editor (“Bridge analysis goes in a circle”) published online today, Metro Council President David Bragdon disputes the Oregonian editorial position on the Columbia River Crossing on several points: That all the critics are extremists: But in dismissing that extreme, you have overlooked thoughtful and constructive questions from rational people who are supportive of…
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How Smart Can a Truck Get?
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2009 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Robert DeKoning, President and CEO, Routeware, Inc. Topic: 21st Century Smart Truck and Smart Back Office Technologies When: Friday, February 6, 2009. 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204