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How will Oregon passenger rail’s two alignment options affect Portland?
Last Thursday, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced that the Oregon Passenger Rail Leadership Council had selected two alternatives for future intercity passenger rail service south of Portland. The alignment selection is part of a planning process to determine the alignment for mid and long-term investments in passenger rail operations in the Willamette Valley. Presently, this corridor is served…
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CRC Deconstructed
Coincident with today’s legislative hearings on the Columbia River Crossing, 1000 Friends of Oregon has released “CRC Facts”, a 22-page deconstruction of the project’s flaws.
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A Bluetooth-powered Augmented Reality Vision of the Future
The folks at GlobeSherpa are thinking big. I love their new video (and the suggestion that you could take a Streetcar from downtown to North Williams): Here’s the full post describing their vision.
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Oregonian Finally Notices Illogic of CRC
While the Editorial Board continues to tell us that the Columbia River Crossing must be built, at least over on the news side they managed to read the toll analysis and figure out that: 1) Traffic is not growing at the rates that were used to justify the project 2) Tolling I-5 without tolling I-205…
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TriMet to start bus service planning/outreach in SE and around Milwaukie MAX
Title says it all. TriMet is now starting its planning and public outreach activities in preparation of the opening of Portland-Milwaukie MAX next year, and is looking for public input, particularly on the question of how bus service should be reorganized around PMLR. A set of guidelines for the process can be found here. The…