At it's recent Thursday meeting, the Metro board voted 7-0to move forward with a study of the Powell/Division Transit Corridor. The corridor in question stretches from Portland State University out to Gresham, centered on SE Powell Boulevard and SE Division Street, ending around Mount Hood...

As many of you have heard, a few nights ago a 29-year old woman riding her bicycle downtown was struck and killed by a truck. Several weeks ago, an 11-year old boy in Vancouver was struck and killed by a C-TRAN bus. The response in more than a few media sources was "oh dear, urban cycling is unsafe"...

It would appear the Feds are about to open up the piggy bank for their share of the Portland-to-Milwaukie Light Rail line.

Transit, both schedule data and real-time vehicle location (AVL - Automatic Vehicle Location) data, has been the poster child and first set of killer apps for open government data. Here's a nice survey article on the topic:

http://wagner.nyu.edu/blog/rudincenter/open_data_guide/

Today, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post highlighted a RAND Corporation report claiming that car-sharing cuts back very little on energy consumption.

One major flaw in the analysis: The conclusion is based on the principle that most car-share users are non-car-owners who already drive infrequently--...