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Another Reason for Streetcar to Celebrate
Just in time for the fifth birthday celebration for Portland Streetcar, word just in that the Oregon Transportation Commission has awarded $2.1M from Connect Oregon to the Lowell St. extension. This should cap the funding plan for the extension and insure the opening of another segment in about a year. Connect Oregon is a $100M…
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Toronto Star Effuses Over French Bike Rental Program
Via the SHIFT list. Ooh la la.It’s Sunday morning. The sun banks higher. The breeze is sultry. You inhale the swooning perfume of the linden blossoms. You think: a crisp, new book would be nice. And then a latte. So you swipe your bike card through the kiosk nearby, dislodging one of these fine steeds,…
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Oregonian Reporter Poses Columbia Crossing Question
The Oregonian transportation reporter, Jim Mayer, posed this question about the Columbia River Crossing project as a comment to another post. I thought it was interesting enough to elevate to its own post. It will be interesting to look closely at the TDM-only alternative to see how it performs. Is it really possible to achieve…
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Streetcar and Gentrification
An article in yesterday’s Trib about the Central Eastside urban renewal district quoted Sam Adams saying that additional funds were needed to lock in affordable housing in the face of the gentrification that would be created by the Streetcar and other improvements. This was part of his justification for increasing the maximum indebtedness of the…
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Death, Taxes and Congestion
Update 19 Jul 2006 A little more data on this. According a post at Price Tags, British Columbia is actually reducing its VMT (it’s actually KMT up there). Original Post 17 Jul 2006 Even the folks suggesting we consider spending an extra $6B on transportation tell us that congestion can only be slowed, not reversed.…