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Officially Respectible: Bicycle Commuting Featured in Wall Street Journal
This must be what mainstream feels like. Thursday’s Wall Street Journal has an article (sorry, no link, you need a password) in the “Personal Journal” section talking about efforts by cities to attract people to bicycle commuting. The focus is on incentives and end-of-trip facilities. Portland gets a mention, but not a very accurate one:…
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Did We Just Pave Over a Woonerf?
The May issue of the NW Examiner reports that students at the Pacific NW College of Art are complaining that traffic speeds are unsafe on the newly paved NW 13th Ave. PNCA students are seeking better enforcement of traffic speed and of failure to obey stop signs. They also want “traffic pacifying devices that will…
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Guerrilla Reclamation of Parking
Picked up from the SHIFT list, folks are beginning to re-think whether on-street parking spaces are the highest and best use of land. Here are examples in New York and San Francisco. I remember a few years ago in Antwerp, I saw lots of cafes that had their sidewalk seating not in the sidewalk itself,…
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Flexcar Getting Stiffed?
Updated May 11: PDOT has released their evaluation report (PDF, 72K) of Flexcar’s “Pilot” use of on-street parking. We’ve had a number of posts here about Flexcar, the carsharing program that has been operating here in Portland for several years (disclaimer, I’m a member, and a happy one). Until now, Flexcar has enjoyed free use…
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Updated bus relocation plan unveiled
TriMet today unveiled an updated plan to relocate buses off the Portland Mall during construction of the Portland Mall Light Rail project. The project is part of the 8.3-mile I-205/Portland Mall Light Rail extension set to begin construction in mid-January 2007. After receiving hundreds of public comments and completing additional traffic analysis, TriMet updated its…