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County Chair Transportation Conversation
As a 501(c)(3) Portland Transport does not endorse candidates. But we can and do encourage our readers to get knowledgeable about candidates’ transportation positions. The Multnomah County Chair race may seem like a bit of a sleeper for transportation advocates, but it’s a very important one. The County is responsible for the majority of bridges…
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How Would ODOT Pay for the CRC?
The Columbia River Crossing was front page news in Salem last week (more on that later), which begs the question, if Oregon goes ahead on its own, how would the bill get paid? The first installment is the $450M that the legislature committed last year. They’d have to repeat that commitment, as it expired when…
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Spin Cycle: CRC Seismic Upgrades
Well, at least the half-life of lies being told to support the Columbia River Crossing is getting shorter. In its morning printed edition of February 10, the Oregonian reported that state bridge engineer Bruce Johnson claimed that “no one had estimated the cost of seismically retrofitting” the I-5 bridges, and speculated that such a retrofit…
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What’s Car Sharing Doing to Auto Sales?
A lot, according to this Planetizen piece (linking to the original Wall Streetcar Journal article, which is behind a paywall). One estimate is that 500,000 less cars have been sold in the last 7 years because of the availability of car sharing services. How many parking spaces does that save?
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KBOO Bike Show: Budgets
Listen to the show (mp3, 26.1MB) Steph talks with Portland Transportation Commissioner Steve Novick, PBOT Director Leah Treat and Bicycle Transportation Alliance Advocacy Directory Gerik Kransky about City and State budgets for active transportation. And Commissioner Novick gets schooled on “Vision Zero”.