4/17: Hello readers. I'm still recovering from a surgery I had on 4/11, so I'm unable to attend events and do typical coverage. I'll post when I can and should improve day by day. Thanks for all your support 🙏. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
With all those trees in the way, it can be really easy to miss the forest. So, last week, when TriMet released its Forward Together Draft Service Concept, many people, myself included, made a beeline to our neighborhood bus, and then immersed ourselves in the tangle of other nearby routes Meanwhile, staring the reader in … Read more
TriMet has released its Forward Together Draft Service Concept (DSC) based in part on community responses to a survey they released back in March. TriMet says people want the transit agency to “focus on ridership and improving connections to destinations for people with low and limited incomes.” While the Forward Together service concept includes changes … Read more
If it doesn’t scale, you should bail.
“Move people, not cars.”
It is, somehow, both about this moment in our city’s life and about good public transit network design.
The debate is familiar. But there might actually be a way to resolve it.
