Portland Transport

Standing Room Only

Portland Streetcar does a ridership sample each quarter. We were all a bit overwhelmed when the summer counts came back and said we had 7800 riders each weekday. Hold on to that hanger strap, the fall (Sep-Nov) counts are in and we’re at 9,000 weekday riders. Saturday ridership is down slightly (6,600 down from 7,600…

December 16, 2005
Another Perspective on Congestion Costs

Meeky passes on a link to another (non-Portland) perspective on congestion and the transportation-land use connection.

December 16, 2005
Featured Class Presentation: Lloyd District Development and Transportation

We’ve had a chance to summarize presentations from the PSU/PDOT Traffic and Transportation for each of the last two weeks. Now we’d like to feature one presentation that we found particularly interesting, something we’d like to do each semester. Marcia Carlson (PDF 2.5M) has certainly identied quite an opportunity: over the next decade, many surface…

December 15, 2005
For the Geeks: How We Did It – The Portland Bike Channel

If you’re not into the details of blogging, or web site programming, you can probably skip right now to the next post. But for the geeks, here’s a summary of how we created the Portland Bike Channel site that we launched yesterday. I’m writing about this because I think it’s an interesting story how how…

December 15, 2005
Announcing the “Bike Channel”

Here at Portland Transport we’re announcing a new site today, which we’re titling “The Portland Bike Channel”. You can find it at http://bikechannel.portlandtransport.com. This is an ‘aggregated’ site. It cotains capsule summaries of the posts to Bike Portland, ORBike and Portland Transport blogs (the bike category only from the latter). The idea is to create…

December 14, 2005