Author: cityhikes

• Public Transit and Rural Places

  

  How American ideas of rural land cripple rural transit, and why we need to fix it

  cityhikes

  February 25, 2025

  europe, intercity bus, small town, society, train, transit, urban planning

  agriculture, history, land use, news, oregon, post bus, public transit, public transportation, railroad, regional planning, rural land, sustainability, switzerland, transit, travel, urbanism

• Portland’s Greenway Problem

  

  Or how the 2030 Bike Plan created our “greenway only” bike network

  cityhikes

  February 14, 2025

  bike, car culture, place, portland, urban planning

  access, bicycle, bike, bike lane, biking, city planning, commute, cycling, greenway, history, news, plan, portland, travel, urban planning

• The Heat Death of BRT

  

  Or how we’re learning the wrong lessons from the FX2

  cityhikes

  February 5, 2025

  car culture, neighborhood, portland, transit, trimet, urban planning

  brt, bus, bus rapid transit, fta, fx, land use, lugano, portland, public-transportation, san francisco, switzerland, transit, transportation, travel, trimet, urban planning, urbanism, van ness

• Natural Disasters, Redlining, and The Future

  

  And the perils of disaster response in a winner takes all system

  cityhikes

  January 20, 2025

  disaster, los angeles, segregation, urban planning, urban renewal

  climate, climate-change, disaster planning, disaster response, environment, fire, hazard, hazard zoning, housing, land use, los angeles, natural disaster, news, planning, southern california, urbanism

• Where Have All The Buses Gone?

  

  Oregon is losing two key bus routes – does anyone even care?

  cityhikes

  January 4, 2025

  intercity bus, odot, train, transit, urban planning

  boise, bus, car culture, flixbus, grants pass, greyhound, intercity bus, la grande, medford, ontario, oregon, portland, trains, transit, transportation, travel

• Metro Rapid Review

  

  Madison has a new BRT, but how much of a BRT is it?

  cityhikes

  December 26, 2024

  Uncategorized

  brt, public-transportation, transit, transportation, travel

• My Very Silly Morning

  

  How I lost my phone and still had a good ol time

  cityhikes

  November 25, 2024

  Uncategorized

  public transit, public-transportation, transit, transportation, travel

• Unpacking the Backpacking Pack

  

  Pondering nature, Indian removal, and what it all means in my life

  cityhikes

  October 22, 2024

  outdoors culture, place, society, train, transit, walk

  adventure, amtrak, backpacking, environmentalism, glacier national park, hiking, land use, national parks, national parks service, native american history, nature, nps, railroad, travel, walking

• Ampacking Glacier National Park

  

  Sure, you can take Amtrak to Glacier, but should you? (yes)

  cityhikes

  September 24, 2024

  car culture, outdoors culture, pedestrian access, small town, train, transit, urban planning

  amtrak, car culture, glacier, glacier national park, glacier np, hiking, land use, montana, national parks, railroad, transit, travel, urbanism, walking

• On the Need For Social Change

  

  It’s not enough to fund transit, we also need to change society

  cityhikes

  August 28, 2024

  car culture, highway, interurban, odot, place, portland, society, train, transit, trimet, urban planning

  car culture, land use, new york city, oregon, portland, public transit, transit, tube map, urbanism