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LA Auto Show: Nissan announces electric car partnership with Oregon
From AutoBlogGreen: At the keynote speech this morning at the LA Auto Show, the president and CEO of Nissan/Renault, Carolos Ghosn, announced a new alliance with the start of Oregon to bring electric vehicles there in 2010. The deal will see “a supply” of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) available to the city of Portland, Oregon and…
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AWESOME Cycling
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2008 Transportation Seminar Series Speakers: IBPI Board Members/founders Mia Birk, Principal of Alta Planning + Design, Jay Graves, owner of the Bike Gallery, and Rex Burkholder, Metro Councilor Topic: Portland is Good, but Copenhagen and Amsterdam are AWESOME: Lessons Learned from the World’s Best Large Cycling Cities…
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Transit and “Food Deserts”
The Sunday O has a feature article on “food deserts”, areas with poor access to grocery stores and particularly choice among grocery stores. It details the story of one family in the Cully neighborhood that makes a 1+ hour (each way) transit ride to a discount warehouse grocery 10 miles away. I’m contrasting this with…
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Benefits of Active Transportation
Via Streetsblog: The folks at the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy have figured out that if we could double the bike/pedestrian mode share for trips of one mile or less (from the current 31% to 70%) we would not only save 50 BILLION miles driven each year, we’d have a much healthier population. Full report (PDF, 5M).
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Desktop Transit Info Appliance
I’ve been playing around with using inexpensive internet devices as displays for transit arrival information, looking for something that will scale inexpensively. I’ve been having some fun with WiFi picture frames, but haven’t found one with quite the right features yet. I’ve had slightly more success with a gadget called a ‘Chumby‘. Here’s mine sitting…