Author: cityhikes

• On the DMV’s Ideas For Driving Alternatives

  

  Did I expect the DMV to revolutionize public transit? No, but I’m still disappointed

  cityhikes

  July 16, 2025

  car culture, highway, odot, pedestrian access, transit, trimet, urban planning, walk

  aging, car culture, dmv, elderly, land use, oregon, portland, retirement, transit, transportation, urbanism

• 80s Greenway Review

  

  Spoiler: it’s not great, and it’s even worse in context

  cityhikes

  July 4, 2025

  bike, highway, pedestrian access, portland, stroad, transit, urban planning

  bike, biking, brt, greenway, portland, transit, transportation, urban planning, urbanism, walking

• Back to the Future on a Trolleybus

  

  Or how TriMet’s 2018 Non Diesel Bus Plan falls short

  cityhikes

  July 1, 2025

  interurban, portland, transit, trimet, urban planning

  bus, bus electrification, oregon, transit, transit policy, transportation, trimet, trolleybus, urbanism

• A Case for Land Reform

  

  Why zoning reform isn’t enough to solve the housing crisis (even if we should do it anyways)

  cityhikes

  June 27, 2025

  Uncategorized

  affordable-housing, housing, housing-crisis, politics, real-estate

• I Like The Preschool For All Tax

  

  And you should write your state legislators to tell them you do too

  cityhikes

  June 24, 2025

  portland, urban planning

  education, means testing, multnomah county, oregon, politics, portland, tax policy

• I’m Done With Grad School!

  

  A brief reflection on how it went and what’s to come

  cityhikes

  June 19, 2025

  Uncategorized

  land use, portland, transit, urbanism

• I Despise AI

  

  And you can’t get me to believe it will be the future

  cityhikes

  May 22, 2025

  Uncategorized

  ai, artificial-intelligence, chatgpt, history, llm, silicon valley, society, technology

• What Makes a District Historic?

  

  The perils of wide-net historic preservation and the folly of Irvington

  cityhikes

  April 23, 2025

  place, portland, society, urban planning, walk

  broadway, historic-preservation, history, irvington, land use, neighborhoods, oregon, portland, real-estate, transportation, travel, urbanism, walking

• Railroads and Planning

  

  Does anyone understand what a railroad even is?

  cityhikes

  April 15, 2025

  place, portland, train, transit, urban planning

  forest park, freight rail, history, land use, oregon, pge, politics, portland, rail, rail policy, railroad, trains, transit, travel, urbanism

• Following The Thread of the O&C

  

  Does a turn of the 20th century scandal railroad scandal still matter?

  cityhikes

  March 27, 2025

  bike, outdoors culture, place, train, urban planning

  california, environment, family-history, forest, genealogy, history, land use, land use policy, oregon, politics, portland, railroad, transit, transportation, urbanism