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Primary Election results affecting land use/transit
While Portland Transport didn’t cover the primary election, there were some issues and offices with a direct impact on transit/land use: All election returns are unofficial at the time of this writing, but the races have been called by local media: Milwaukie voters narrowly passed a measure to finance the city’s contribution to Portland-Milwaukie Light…
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Think Global, Act Local
I happened to be headed to City Hall for an unrelated meeting today when I came across the rally to encourage the City to unload it’s financial holdings in Walmart. Well, here’s a disinvestment campaign that’s a little more in line with this site’s point of view. The ‘350’ movement (trying to limit CO2 concentrations…
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The question of secession from TriMet
In the recent article about the Southwest Corridor project, there was quite a bit of commentary written by “joe”, who is opposed to the project (or at least appears to be opposed to any major capital construction in the Tigard/Tualatin area), and is involved, in some fashion, with an initiative petition in Tualatin to require a…
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Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy, and Resilient Communities
I am currently reading Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy and Resilient Communities written by Jeffrey Tumlin. Tumlin, a planner at Nelson/Nygaard penned this wonderful book collecting nearly every useful tool for the layman, neighborhood activist or professional all in one book. Tumlin has penned what I believe to be not only a…
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To Cross, or Not to Cross…
PSU Transportation Seminar: Speaker: Ron Van Houten, Western Michigan University Topics: Pedestrian Safety and Culture Change When: Friday, May 16, 2014, 12-1 p.m. Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204 Summary: This session will describe the process and results of a NHTSA study that showed a change in driver culture of yielding to pedestrians in crosswalks on…