Category: odot

• 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

• How’s That Metro 2040 Plan Going?

  

  Commentary on the state of land use and transportation in the Metro region in 2025

  cityhikes

  March 23, 2025

  car culture, housing, odot, pedestrian access, place, portland, train, transit, trimet, urban planning

  car culture, land use, oregon, portland, public-transportation, transit, transportation, travel, urbanism, walking

• 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

• 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

• Dreaming of a New SW Corridor

  

  What if we combined it with a high speed rail initiative?

  cityhikes

  July 9, 2024

  high speed rail, interurban, odot, place, portland, train, transit, trimet, urban planning

  high speed rail, land use, light rail, max, oregon, portland, railroad, sw corridor, trains, transit, transportation, travel, urbanism

• The Death and Life of Great American Interurbans

  

  How Cleveland, Ohio and Portland, Oregon represent the past and the future of mass transit in the US

  cityhikes

  June 17, 2024

  interurban, odot, place, portland, train, transit, trimet, urban planning

  city, cleveland, interurban, land use, portland, railroad, transit, transportation, travel, 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

• Oregon High Speed Rail – The Valley

  

  Would you rather have a train to Eugene in less than an hour or one freeway expansion project?

  cityhikes

  February 6, 2024

  high speed rail, interurban, odot, train, transit, urban planning

  amtrak, cascades, high speed rail, oregon, oregon electric, portland, railroad, southern pacific, transit, urbanism

• 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

• 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