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Cascadia Scorecard Released
The Sightline Institute released their 2006 Cascadia Report Card yesterday. This is the third in their series of annual report cards on the health of our greater region (an area containing watersheds in parts of Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia and Alaska). While there is no transportation grade per se, the report…
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Is Goal 1 Obsolete?
Statewide Planning Goal # 1: To develop a citizen involvement program that insures the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process. [read the rest of the goal text here (PDF, 12K)] There seems to be a difference of opinion about what this means in the context of the “Big…
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Behavior in the “Commons”
Miles, a regular reader and frequent commenter here, recently posted his experience feeling threatened on MAX on his own blog, documented life. This has gotten me thinking about how we as members of society interact with each other when we meet in our “commons”, the spaces that we share public ownership and use of. The…
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South Waterfront Pedestrian Bridge Open House Tonight
Offer your input into what a pedestrian bridge from the South Waterfront to the Corbett-Terwilliger-Lair Hill neighborhood should look like at a PDOT open house tonight. Wednesday, June 21, at 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Portland State University Smith Memorial Student Union – Room 329 1825 SW Broadway Portland, OR – The Portland Office of Transportation…
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Flexcar Policy at City Council Tomorrow
For those of you who followed our discussion of City policy on use of on-street parking spaces for car-sharing, the proposed policy is on the City Council agenda for 9:30 tomorrow (6/21) time-certain [time certain means it can’t start before that time, it will almost certainly start a few minutes later]. Come down and share…