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Report from the Tolling Forum
Update: Oregonian coverage of the forum I had a chance to sit through most of the tolling panel yesterday (I had to leave before the last group of speakers to get to another commitment). The program was organized by the Cascadia Center of the Discovery Institute, an organization I was not previously familier with (not…
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Congressional Shake-up
The word came through yesterday afternoon that Earl Blumenaur will be moving to the House Ways and Means Committee. This means he has to give up his Transportation Committee seat. At the same time, the Democratic Caucus says they are going to strip earmarks from the omnibus spending bill for the balance of the year.…
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Designing the Transit Mall, Twenty Feet at a Time
A little whilte ago, the Daily Journal of Commerce ran a “conversation” with Tad Savinar, who is working on the streetscape design for the Transit Mall. The core of the conversation is the idea of looking at the Transit Mall in micro-increments, a single block face, or even a single store front. Savinar was kind…
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The Little Things Count
It’s must have been a pretty light news day, because Friday the Oregonian had an editorial about TriMet’s ticket machines. The gripes about reliability are real, but I had to laugh, because TriMet’s machines are 10 times better than Streetcar’s (we were ordering so few that we couldn’t interest a supplier with technology more modern…