Category: highway

• 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

• 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

• Oregon High Speed Rail – Branching Out

  

  Little projects go a long way when you’re connecting to a high speed trunk

  cityhikes

  February 12, 2024

  highway, odot, train, transit, urban planning

  corvallis, eugene, high speed rail, hillsboro, mcminnville, newberg, oregon, oregon high speed rail, portland, railroad, salem, transit, urbanism, willamette valley

• Flagstaff Is Nice, You Might Like It

  

  A reflection on a few days in Northern Arizona

  cityhikes

  December 23, 2023

  highway, small town, stroad, train, urban planning, walk

  arizona, atsf, car culture, flagstaff, grand canyon, land use, railroad, route 66, santa fe railway, urbanism, walking

• A Tale Of Two Bike Rides

  

  Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the World Naked Bike Ride

  cityhikes

  August 24, 2023

  bike, bridge, car culture, highway, odot, pedestrian access, urban planning

  car culture, car dependency, cycling, cycling activism, human access, naked bike ride, portland, systematic change, urbanism, vulnerability, wnbr

• On Small Towns and Railroad Mergers

  

  Or how austerity funding for Amtrak has killed the small town

  cityhikes

  July 19, 2023

  highway, small town, train, transit, urban planning

  american history, amtrak, history, railroad, railroad history, railroad merger, small town urbanism, small town usa, urbanism

• A Streetcar Named St. Charles

  

  A Christmas spent in the Crescent City

  cityhikes

  January 1, 2023

  highway, place, segregation, transit, urban planning, walk

  city of new orleans, interstate highway, new orleans, rta, streetcar, transportation, urbanism, walking

• Six Books I Think You Should Read

  

  Reading is fun!

  cityhikes

  December 29, 2022

  highway, lower albina, neighborhood, odot, radical history, urban planning, urban renewal

  books, iww, latin america, lower albina, native american history, portland, racism, reading list, redlining, urbanism

• Walking in Brooklyn

  

  A brief review of walking in my home neighborhood

  cityhikes

  October 6, 2022

  highway, neighborhood, odot, pedestrian access, walk

  brooklyn, car culture, city, pedestrian, portland, portland neighborhoods, transit, urbanism, walking, walks