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Your Questions For Neil, “Round 5”, Part 3 – Service Planning
Here is Part 3 of our recent interview with TriMet’s Neil McFarlane, based on your questions. This segment is shorter than the others and deals solely with the topic of service planning, especially in suburban areas and more densely-populated areas currently lacking in comprehensive transit service. Segment Navigation: Part 1 of 4 – High-Capacity Projects…
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Powell -Division Rapid Transit Inspection
As study progresses on the Powell Division Rapid Transit project, many of us are pondering how Metro will come down on this project. Which street will carry the new service? What will the new service look like? What can we expect in terms of return on investment? Scotty provided some great background on potential designs…
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Your Questions For Neil, “Round 5″, Part 2 – Ridership / Operations / Budget
Yesterday, we posted the first in a series of videos featuring Portland Transport’s interview with TriMet’s Neil McFarlane, based on your questions. Today, here’s Part 2… Today’s topics are Ridership, Operations and Budget: Recent press about transit at historically high levels, but TriMet’s has not fully recovered to pre-2009. Some service has recently been restored,…
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HUMP-IT: TriMet and BTA introduce “Active Transit”
For a long time, activists have frequently lumped public transit (including bus, Streetcar, and light rail) together in with various means of human-powered locomotion, including walking and bicycling. Today, TriMet and the Bicycle Transportation Alliance are proud to announce the HUMP-IT program. HUMP-IT, or Human Powered Intermodal Transportation, is intended to usher in a new…
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Your Questions For Neil, “Round 5”, Part 1 – High-Capacity Projects
Last Wednesday, Chris sat down with TriMet’s Neil McFarlane for a discussion focused on your questions. This has become a sort of annual tradition for Portland Transport, and this year we were very pleased to be hosted by the Portland Opera – the Opera headquarters is located on the east bank of the Willamette just…