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Facebook to the Rescue?
Kicking off the spring PSU seminar series: Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2009 Transportation Seminar Series The Winter 2009 Transportation Seminar Series begins this Friday! Speaker: Alison Wiley, Transportation Options Program Manager, Oregon Dept. of Transportation Topic: Global Warming Transportation Solutions Via Social Marketing When: Friday, January 9, 2009, 12:00-1:00p.m. Where: PSU…
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Regional Priorities
On Thursday, JPACT will review regional priorities for the next transportation reauthorization, the once-every-six-years setting of Federal transportation policy. I’ve extracted the draft policy document (PDF, 362K) from the meeting packet. While I’m sure our approach will be much more progressive that most other regions, there is still room for improvement. Here are a few…
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What Next?
The region has been gradually building out our high capacity transit (HCT) system based on a plan that is now about a quarter century old, and much of that vision has been fulfilled. So what happens now? Metro and TriMet have undertaken a new High Capacity Transit system plan effort, and I’ve been involved peripherally…