Metro transportation trend report shows biking bright spots, but also red flags for key goals
Slides from presentation on Metro’s Emerging Transportation Trends Study.
🚨 Please note that BikePortland slows down during this time of year as I have family in town and just need a break! Please don't expect typical volume of news stories and content. I'll be back in regular form after the new year. Thanks. - Jonathan 🙏
Slides from presentation on Metro’s Emerging Transportation Trends Study.
“Climate change is not going to wait on any of us and we have to transform our system in a way that can meet our climate goals… I would love to take a billion dollars and put it into a community, rather than a freeway expansion.— Ashton Simpson, Metro Council candidate
“To me these highway expansions represent an old way of doing business.” — Juan Carlos González, Metro Council
Two freeway expansion projects that were due to be approved by Metro Council at a meeting today (7/29) have been taken off the agenda and will be given their own meeting next week. The change is notable because, as we shared last week in an opinion from transportation and climate change activist Chris Smith, the … Read more