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Open Thread for week of November 10-16, 2013
Stuff in the news: Metro approves $68M in active transportation/freight funds. Metro also claims that the region can meet state emission standards, while noting a disconnect between plans on the books, and the current political realities. Joseph Rose questions a recent survey ranking Portland’s traffic as eighth worst in the nation. Sightline Institute blogger Clark…
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KBOO Bike Show: Ethicist
Listen to the show (mp3, 25.8MB) Michelle and Tori talk with Randy Cohen, formerly “The Ethicist” columnist for the New York Times, now host of “Person Place Thing“. They discuss the ethics of everything from paying your transit fare, to who gets the last bike share bike at a station, to whether it’s ethical (if not…
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I Beg Your Pardon, Streetcar Does Not Need to be Fixed
This year’s award for most inflammatory headline has to go to “Portland streetcar bottleneck needs $3.7 million fix less than a decade after tracks laid“. The story refers to finally double-tracking a section of the alignment between 4th Ave and PSU Urban Center around what is known as the “Jasmine Block”. This is not a…
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Be Careful What You Wish For
The Columbia River Crossing took another PR hit this week, with the revelation that by not relying on Washington State to collect the bridge tolls, ODOT will need to invest north of $50M to create a sophisticated tolling system. Now not too many people are more anxious than I am to see that the CRC…
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Cyclists and Intersections: A Seminar Double Header
For the next two weeks, the PSU Transportation Seminar will focus on what happens with folks riding bikes at intersections: Why doesn’t that traffic signal ever turn green? An evaluation of roadway markings for cyclists Speaker: Stefan Busse, PSU CEUG Honors Student Topic: Why doesn’t that traffic signal ever turn green? An evaluation of…