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Making the Illegal Safe?
My interest was piqued by something I learned at a recent Planning and Sustainability Commission meeting. We were being briefed on the Outer Powell Safety Project by ODOT. This $6M project will address some issues in the high-crash corridor from SE 111th to SE 174th. BikePortland has a nice write-up as well. One element caught…
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August 2013 Open Thread
I’ve been on blog-cation for the past month or so, but here is the open thread for August. The Southwest Corridor Steering Committee unanimously approved the draft recommendations published recently. This includes study of rapid transit (either BRT or LRT) from Portland to Tualatin via Tigard, along with other improvements to local service as well…
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What Should We Tell the Drivers?
Join us for a SPECIAL Transportation Seminar next Monday, August 5th Speaker: Professor Klaus Bogenberger Topic: Measuring the Quality of Traveler Traffic Information As we all know, the quality of traffic information is usually defined in terms of quantitative technical characteristics that relate almost exclusively to the way that the information is broadcast. This ignores…
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TriMet Takes $10 Million Hit from ERB, Claims Victory
Both ATU and TriMet appear to be claiming victory in in the recent ruling by the Oregon Employee relations board. It would appear that TriMet does indeed get the contract imposed by the arbitrator (good news), but cannot collect retroactive health-care contributions from employees (bad news) and must refund some contributions (more bad news). TriMet’s…
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Dissecting Curb Parking
Alan Durning has an outstanding post over at Sightline looking at the policy and expectations around residential curbside parking, including this gem: Urban planners and lawyers may think of on-street parking as public property: a shared, public resource to be managed for the common good. Most home owners–and most voters–think of curb spaces as their…