Full story »

Portland must decide whether the plan is truly clever or breaches public trust in how projects are funded  Full story »

TriMet is on track to become an insurer first, a transportation provider second. The agency and its union are negotiating a contract that surely will focus on medical costs. Full story »

The Columbia River Crossing won't be built without federal money and, so far, it's not there. Worse there seems to be little interest in Washington for a serious, long-term transportation infrastructure bill. Full story »

As Portland adopts its new bike-path plan, it needs to get real -- and fast -- about paying for it  Full story »

A Portland-Seattle rail overhaul puts us in the high-speed lane  Full story »

Last week's strategy session of "sponsors" of the Columbia River Crossing effort points to a need for better communication and a stronger commitment to the project  Full story »

Dave Lister: Finding himself the only passenger on a recent Seattle-to-Portland flight prompts a change of heart about "a rare success story in aviation." Full story »

Neal Peirce: The new buzz about cycling is clearly a mark of the times. You can credit snarled traffic, ennui with driving, rising oil prices and concern about greenhouse gas emissions. Full story »

The cost of health insurance at TriMet has gotten out of hand. The transit agency needs to do some very basic cost containment or it risks running itself into the ground, both financially and politically. Full story »

If you privately ask an Oregon State trooper who patrols Interstate 5 south from Portland to Salem and ask him to name places along the freeway that motorists might want to avoid because of drug dealing and other persistent crimes, the answer might very well be this: The rest stops just south of Wilsonville.  Full story »

K.L. Allen: MAX is obviously running defective equipment, with intercoms that don't work, "door open" buttons that don't work. I would guess that there have been many more incidents and near-misses like ours, or others saved by sheer luck, like the most recent example involving that 3-year-old boy.  Full story »

Using a crosswalk in Portland may seem a simple act, but in dozens of intersections in this city you risk your life every time you step off the curb. What pedestrians in Portland need is for motorists to look up, look out and most of all, follow the law that requires them to stop, and stay stopped, for pedestrians in crosswalks. Full story »

Once destined for Oregon's Yaquina Bay, the aging ships will instead be dismantled in Texas, a more suitable place.  Full story »

For cities willing to wait and wait some more for uncertain federal funding, the promise of construction jobs and the new development that often hitches itself to rail transit, Portland is a lesson in all that it means to go by streetcar. Full story »