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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Transit'
Bike no-brainer: bike valet parking at PGE Park
July 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Bicycle · CarFree · Portland · Transit
The Overhead Wire in Portland
July 29th, 2007 · No Comments
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//
Tags: Beer · Blog · CarFree · Festival · Portland · Transit
The Stranger: Portland Gets It
July 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Bicycle · CarFree · Cascadia · Portland · Transit
Find your neighborhood’s Walk Score
July 18th, 2007 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: CarFree · Mississippi Ave. · Transit
TriMet by text message
July 17th, 2007 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: CarFree · Gadget · Portland · Transit
Portland Streetcar schedule on your iPhone
July 12th, 2007 · No Comments
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 [...]
