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Putting All the Pieces Together
Tuesday’s Trib had an article (“River of cars runs through it“) about the traffic that divides the South Portland neighborhood (formerly known as Corbett-Terwilliger-Lair Hill) into pieces. A whole series of fixes is needed to remedy this and the neighborhood is justifiably impatient at the rate of implementation.
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Getting SMART about Washington County Commuter Rail
There was a nice piece in the Oregonian about Washington County Commuter Rail yesterday. One of my co-workers in Wilsonville was quoted. The part I was impressed by was how WIlsonville is going to adjust the routes for their SMART bus system to get folks from the Commuter Rail station to employment areas (many of…
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Making Transportation Concurrency More Multimodal
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Ruth Steiner, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida Topic: Making Transportation Concurrency More Multimodal: Lessons from Washington and Florida When: Friday, April 13, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center
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Where’s the Justice in it?
Yesterday’s Trib has a lengthy article (and companion story) on health issues along the I-5 corridor in North Portland linked to the freeway and the emissions that come with it. I think this issue (environment justice) is given far too little consideration in the Columbia Crossing discussions. The federal regs will actually require Metro to…
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Crunch Time for Burnside
City Council will take up Commissioner Adams’ request to fund initial engineering on the West Burnside/Couch couplet tomorrow (3pm Time Certain). Whether you’re a fan or a foe of the project, this is your best opportunity to influence the outcome. Commissioner Saltzman appears to be skeptical. No word on the other 3 members, but Sam…