VanPortlander

I haven't entirely abandoned this site but it's taken a back burner to a few other side projects at the moment. My expectation is that when I'm back, it'll be in a bigger, better way. Stay tuned...

You're going to get more streetcars, whether you like it or not. Just ignore the fact they don't really relieve congestion. PDOT will be holding a series of meetings about future streetcar planning. On a sorta-related note, my sister was in town last weekend from Phoenix. I asked her how long it takes her to get to work, and she told me a little less than half an hour, noting that it was very...

A couple weeks ago I blogged about how TriMet should use the GPS data to provide real-time connection info on buses and light rail train. Today on #6 both in the morning and afternoon I saw what might be a precursor to that system. Today there were automated announcements (accompanied by message board displays) at each major transfer point such as Burnside, Hawthorne, Pacific (MAX), and so on....

I was skimming through a post on BlueOregon about the peace rally when I noticed this bit: Interesting deal... ...my youngest daughter had to be coaxed into going. The deal I finally struck with her was all about quid pro quo... She would come to the Peace Rally & March with me and I would go to the very last showing of her highschool's production of Fiddler on the Roof later that evening....

While browsing my feeds today I learned that yesterday Portland lost a blogger. Russell Shaw used to write locally for Metblogs, but was known in wider circles for his work as a tech journalist and blogger for AOL, ZDnet, and the Huffington Post. He passed away while on a business trip in San Jose. Tagged as: russellshaw, bloggers...

Most days, my commute brings me past Fairly Honest Bill's on the corner of MLK and Couch. It's an interesting secondhand store with a wide variety of merchandise... but that's not the interesting part. To me, the interesting part is the signage, some of which I offer up here: Click to view larger on Flickr Tagged as: fairlyhonestbills, portland, stores, signs...

Sometimes my RSS reader and searches turn up some gems... like this new blog, appropriately titled Things About Portland That Suck. Tagged as: portland, pdx, oregon...