Posts tagged Oregon
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Afternoon links: Irrational conduct on roads
Ur doing it wrong, traffic engineers; Bikes should defer to irrational drivers; BART has farecard cheating problem; How walkable is your VA or MD city?; Why is urbanism liberal?; Revisiting the flawed Urban Mobility Report; Bus driver recovers ghost bike. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Better pedestrian environments
New crosswalks in Lincoln Park; Arlington police step up enforcement; A green street in PG; Arlington’s streetcar old and new; Credit card payment at more Metro lots; New LEED to incorporate transportation; Free parking in Eugene not working as hoped; Robocars by 2026 or not?; Regions and neighborhoods more important than cities?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The votes are in
Election results mixed for transportation; What’s in store for education reform?; CaBi impresses while Metro struggles; More CaBi stations for Arlington; Bike and transit news in Northern Virginia; Benefits of green roofs; Transit is good for kids; If a tree falls in a suburb; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning links: Out of the road
Bus tragedy; Keeping bike racks off Pennsylvania; Opposing comes at a cost; Food trucks roll around for another article; Fishing for tows; Google the Shweeb; And in Oregon…; Cities in focus; Vision on the SW Waterfront. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fewer taxes, longer names
Union Station tax break back?; More Metro station name creep; Maryland marks lowest turnout ever; Arlington County struggles with parking garage; Debating HOT Lanes; What to do with little parks; Prefab rowhouses don’t cut it; Cracking through pavement. Keep reading…
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Breakfast Links: Learning to share
Bike sharing the social way; Healthy employees are happy employees; Prince William County goes to the dogs; There must be an app for that; P is for Portland, but not for pedestrian; Newspaper page rage. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving earth
Politically in PG; And…; Did you feel it?; The line on Purple; An urban Wal-Mart?; Obama vs. sprawl; Oregon to bag the bags?. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: While you were festivating
MoCo’s trail advocate face-off: Marc Fisher profiles the arguments on both sides of the Purple Line debate from advocates who love the Capital Crescent Trail. Some want to keep transit away from the trail’s vicinity, while others believe we can and should have both. Keep reading…
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Morning links: Benefits of transit edition
Gridlock Sam still shilling for Chevy Chase: New York’s “Gridlock Sam,” who coined the term “gridlock,” is still working for the town of Chevy Chase and pushing bad logic to stop light rail on the Purple Line. This time, he argues that light rail isn’t much better than BRT, while the buses are cheaper. But Sam neglects to mention that the BRT alignments… Keep reading…
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New Partners: Frustrating Transit Administrators
I jumped in to a panel on streetcars fairly late. It featured people from Portland, Tuscon, and other cities that have recently deployed streetcars. When I came in, they were expressing major frustration with the FTA and its decisionmaking. Keep reading…