Portland Transport

Buckle Your Seatbelts!

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. – Winston Churchill By that standard, Portland Transport is probably far from perfect. But we are changing! After eight years running on the Movable Type platform and about five years talking about converting to WordPress, we’re going for it. We’ll be taking the…

August 30, 2013
I Suspected…

The Business Journal is covering a report by Allstate Insurance that ranks Portland’s drivers among the worst in the nation. Given the spate of crashes with people walking and biking, not to mention a rash of driving into streetcars, I can’t help wonder if we’re getting worse…

August 28, 2013
Great Infographic on the History of Commuting

I’d love to see a version of this for the Portland metro area.

August 27, 2013
Driving the Bus with Carbon Monoxide?

Readers of this blog will be aware that OPAL has been a leading voice criticizing TriMet service reductions in recent years. They’re now latching onto a somewhat obscure air quality regulation to try to put some teeth into that advocacy. The Portland region is under Federal compliance plans for two pollutants: ozone and carbon monoxide…

August 26, 2013
Global Road Kill

Via Slashdot: An interactive map of road death rates worldwide. Depressing.

August 22, 2013