Dave Knows: Portland

The Slammer Tavern (500 SE 8th Ave.) will serve as the starting point for this year’s Portland Challenge. Registration begins at noon and the race begins at 2pm. It’s free to enter but the organizers ask participants and fans to make donations to the House of Peace and Love Project (see the official [...]

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I’m moving (from downtown to North Portland) this weekend, so unfortunately I won’t be participating in much of this weekend’s goings ons. Here’s what I’ll be missing . . .
Thursday
MAX construction on 5th Avenue in Old Town/Chinatown is almost complete, so TriMet’s throwing a party. Here are the details:

Local bands and musicians including Autopilot, [...]

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There’s a post today on the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) blog suggesting bike valet parking at PGE Park.
A couple years ago this very idea came up at BikePortland.org. And festivals and events around town have been providing valet bike parking for years; why not a permanent facility at PGE Park and the Rose [...]

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The author of The Overhead Wire, a blog dedicated to “sending up transit and TOD with a little unconventional wisdom”, is visiting Portland for a streetcar workshop, and has posted some great streetcar, tram, and Oregon Brewers Festival photos interspersed with commentary.
Oregon Reddit//

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Portland’s bike-friendly culture gets some love in the Portland Mercury’s big-sister weekly The Stranger. Erica C. Barnett writes in the paper’s blog (which for some reason they call SLOG):

In Seattle, when a bike lane threatened to take out a few feet of road that could otherwise be used by cars, businesses put pressure on [...]

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Enter your address and press GO at Walkscore.com and you are presented with a Google map mashup showing you all the local walkable grocery stores, restaurants, bars, schools, libraries, etc. You also get a “walk score”. On a scale of 0-100, the walk score gives you a general idea of how walkable your [...]

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Chris Smith at Portland Transport has created an interface to get TriMet TransitTracker arrival times via mobile phone text message. For slow texters like me, using this tool might not be any faster than calling 238-Ride, but it doesn’t hurt to have options.
It’s very simple to use, as he explains:
To get arrival times send [...]

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You probably already know about Nextbus for real-time Portland Streetcar arrival information.
But do you know about MuniTime? For the iPhone?
The Portland Streetcar is one of the first two transit agencies available. To access it, bookmark this URL on your iPhone: http://pdx.munitime.com
(If the iPhone has such a great web browser, I’m not sure why [...]

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Summer of 2008 Portlanders will be able to take the train up to Vancouver, BC without having to stop overnight in Seattle (and vice versa). At least that’s what this article seems to be saying:

When the new service begins operations, Amtrak Cascades will depart from Vancouver, B.C. in the morning, travel to Seattle, and [...]

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