Category: transit

• Back to Work

  

  Re-entering the workforce, moving, and other things

  cityhikes

  August 18, 2025

  place, society, transit, urban planning

  bike, biking, commute, cycling, issaquah, Seattle, transit, transportation, travel, urbanism, walking

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Book Review: A Paradise of Small Houses

  

  Spoiler: I really didn’t like it

  cityhikes

  March 2, 2025

  chicago, housing, los angeles, place, portland, transit, urban planning

  book-reviews, books, boston, chicago, ireland, irish-american, land use, new york, portland, railroad, transit, transportation, urbanism, walking

• 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

• 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

• 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