Opinion: Mapps needs new approach if he wants to change traffic culture
Mapps is right to focus on it, but he’s off to a bad start.
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Protestors shout down officials at road safety press conference
Anger and frustration about Portland deadly roadways — and a feeling that local officials have not done enough in response to it — has been simmering (and at times boiling over) for months. At a press conference Monday morning at City Hall, that anger revealed itself in the voices and actions of several protestors who … Read more
A revealing exchange about funding from city council work session
How we pay for sidewalks, roads and sewers matters.
Commissioner Mapps’ office makes statement on traffic deaths
“The most effective immediate intervention is enforcement, penalties and public awareness regarding breaking traffic laws.”
PBOT budget advisors strategize as Mapps leans in for help
Mapps’ biggest bureau is in freefall and he hasn’t found a parachute.
PBOT leaders lobby Congress on Metro-funded trip to D.C.
Meetings with Oregon lawmakers and a trip to US DOT headquarters were on the agenda.
Fireworks over fees at City Council as Mapps fights for funding
Commissioner Mapps faced an assault from Mayor Wheeler on the budgets of his three bureaus to tune of $18.7 million.
Portland will add 500 bikes to Biketown bike share system
The expansion doubles the size of the fleet since 2000.
Podcast: Transportation Commissioner Mingus Mapps
More cops, fewer cars — and more on where Mapps stands two months into his tenure.
Congressman Earl Blumenauer and Commissioner Mingus Mapps talk 122nd Ave plan
The new PBOT commissioner and longtime transportation-focused congressman are excited about new federal funding that they hope will transform this dangerous corridor.
Commissioner Mingus Mapps is now in charge of Portland transportation
The move could be another sign that bicycling is on its way back to the front-and-center of local politics
With Hardesty out, who will take reins of PBOT?
We need someone to take over the bureau for the next two years.