The Greenwashing of a Portland Highway Expansion
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The old political instinct to cram more cars through cities never dies - not even in Portland.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Portland
“I Can’t Be Quiet About This.” How a Grieving Mother Found Her Voice.
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Since losing her son Dustin to a drunk driver, Kristi Finney has become one of the Portland region's most energetic and compelling advocates for traffic safety reforms.
Bike to the Future: Portland Uses Bikes to Rethink 70 Years of Strip Malls
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Portland built its fame as a U.S. bike capital on one crucial discovery: It is fairly cheap and easy to make biking desirable in neighborhoods that were originally built for horses and streetcars. This year, Oregon's largest city will begin a new challenge: making biking desirable in a neighborhood that was originally built for cars.
Portland Will Reduce Residential Speed Limits to 20 MPH
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To improve traffic safety and make streets more welcoming for walking and biking, Portland will lower speed limits on nearly all of its residential streets to 20 miles per hour.
Rising Rents Lead to Falling Bus Ridership in Portland
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Bus ridership is declining in almost every U.S. city. Some reasons are fairly obvious: Lower gas prices combined with higher transit fares and service cuts make transit less appealing. But observers aren't satisfied by those explanations alone. In Portland, one factor seems to be rising housing costs.
The Mayor of Portland Is Cheerleading for a Highway Expansion
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Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, came out swinging last week against residents who are trying to stop a $450 million widening of I-5 in the Rose Quarter.