Portland Transport

PortlandCycling.net Added to Bike Channel

Carlo has just posted some news items to his site, so it’s a good time to announce that the RSS feed from his PortlandCycling.net site has been added to Portland Transport’s Portland Bike Channel site and mega-RSS feed

January 13, 2006
Bridge Work Rained Out… Again

The weekend closure of the Burnside Bridge to change lane marking for the upcoming maintence work is rained out for the second weekend in a row. The plan is now for next weekend…

January 13, 2006
What I Learned About Portland Transport from Michael Porter

As I mentioned, on Monday I attended the Oregon Business Plan summit, and the featured speaker was Harvard’s Michael Porter. Porter is THE guru on competitive strategy (I even read some of his stuff in business school, back in the middle ages). He was chartered to advise us on how to tighten up our plan,…

January 13, 2006
Blogger on Film

Portland Transport blogger (and Metro Councilor) Rex Burkholder is interviewed in the new documentary, Mama Earth. There are two showings coming up in Portland. Here’s the flyer (PDF, 83K) or you can get more info at http://www.earthwalkmedia.com/current.htm.

January 13, 2006
Talking About the Tram

The Tram is being talked about everywhere today. There is a Steve Duin column as well as a long piece by Ryan Frank on the history of the project in the Oregonian. And of course Jack Bog is blasting the project, while Portland Architecture is (at least partially) rising to its defense. About the only…

January 12, 2006