Portland Transport

Hey, it Could Have Been Worse

I got a kick out of the article in yesterday’s O about a spat between the parking folks at PDOT and the vendor who manages all those paystations downtown. Apparently some (percentage TBD) of the machines accepted money on Monday, which was a holiday with no parking enforcement. While I quite agree that the City…

December 29, 2005
GPS Tolling Gets a Trial in Seattle

What if I said that I had a magic bullet that would guarantee citizens significantly less auto traffic congestion and provide beleaguered transportation departments with much-needed funds. How could you say no? And yet, tolls and congestion pricing have long been considered political suicide in the U.S. However, in the face of shrinking transportation budgets…

December 28, 2005
Copyright and a Milestone

As we wind down toward the end of the year, a pause for a moment of introspection seems appropriate. First, unless we have a server meltdown, we’ll have our 25,000th visitor today. That’s just under a month since we hit 20,000, so thanks to our loyal readers who keep coming back to see what we’re…

December 28, 2005
Transit Surfer goes Production and New Interface Added

Thanks to all the folks who’ve been beta-testing our Transit Surfer tool. We’re releasing the official version 1.0 today, and it now has its own domain name: tsrf.us. There are currently two flavors: a wireless PDA interface (the one that’s been in beta test). It’s available now at http://tsrf.us/pda. The new interface is for desktop…

December 27, 2005
Win a Free Bike Tour

Over at http://www.portlandpeace.org/, they’re offering a raffle for one of their “Sustainable Energy in Motion” bike tours. We don’t know a whole lot about the organization (other than that their blog often picks up links to our posts here at Portland Transport). But the goals sound admirable and the tours looks like fun. Check it…

December 26, 2005