Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oregon/Transportation

Purpose

Just starting up the discussion page. Please post any transportation-related tasks here! Ajbenj 05:37, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon State Highways

Northenglish started up this WikiProject, so I thought I would promote it here. There's lots to do. Katr67 03:01, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon State Rail

I think we should start an article about passenger rail transportation in Oregon. Anyone else in favor?

I'd also be interested in helping out with the Salem station's article. Joseph 01:27, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Info posted by 24.20.17.196 to project page to be added where needed

Bicycling

Portland leads American cities by providing riders with hundreds of miles of on-street Bike Routes. Portland bicycle and pedestrian advocates have been active for years, hosting Walkable City Workshops, Rails to Trails, and the current 40-Mile Loop, as part of local neighborhood and community-planning processes. The City of Portland, Metro Regional Transportation Planning Committees, and the Oregon Dept of Transportation, Tri-Met cooperate to design multi-modal transit route improvements. Multnomah County has pledged Pedestrian and Bicycle improvements as part of each bridge renovation projects it conducts. At least 3,000 Bike Commuters per day use the east-west Hawthorne street and bridge to downtown.

Portland alone holds a large collection of bicycle-only infrastructure, such as the bike path along the length of I-205 from Oregon City to the Columbia River and Vancouver, Washington.

Thousands of riders participate in organized rides in the Pacific Northwest. Annual major events include the Bus/Bike/Car Challenge, daily Bike Month events, the Seattle to Portland (STP) ride, a mountain to coast ride, the worst day of the year ride, dozens of club events, and over 10,000 Bike Portland's scenic Bridges, in the Providence Bridge Pedal each August.

All Tri-Met Buses amd MAX Light Rail Cars can carry bikes. Free Bike Lockers are also available. Riders may contact the BTA for a Locker Key, route maps, and additional information. This website: http://www.bta4bikes.org is provided by Oregon's statewide advocacy group, The Bicyce Transportaton Alliance to assist riders to improve safety, and provide legal support and enjoyment for Bicyclists.

This large network of bike paths may deserve articles, and additional links to Maps. —the preceding comment is by 24.20.17.196 (talk • contribs) 2007-02-05T07:25:40 PST: Please sign your posts!.

This appears to be a call for creating some articles. I looked to see if some were already written, but few are. Here are a few ideas for article names, and some external links to help create them:

• 40 Mile Loop [1] [2] [3]
• Bicycling in Portland, Oregon: currently lightly addressed in Transportation in Portland, Oregon#Cycling; additional sources: [4]
  • List of bicycling events and clubs in Portland, Oregon: [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
• Bicycling in Oregon: [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
  • Oregon bicycling law [19]
  • Bicycle Transportation Alliance: this unique organization probably deserves an article [20] [21]
• Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic: article started; could use more references, history and photos
• Cycle Oregon: this highly sought-after event probably deserves an article [22]
• Worst day of the year ride [23] [24]
• Portland Bridge Pedal: [25] [26]
• The Hood to Coast ride, but can't find the name of it. Anyone know?

—EncMstr 18:45, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Trails

Public trails may fall into the realm of parks, as there are many deserving of articles inside the Portland city limits maintained by the parks bureau. Large trails, such as the Pacific Crest Trail, or hiking trail networks would fall into this category. Portland's 40 Mile Loop planning and restoration process is a notable current project that deserves coverage and a link.

Long-distance bus service

An Oregon sustainable travel development group, Mass Tram America, has designed what might be described as a rapid air-bus alternative. The overhead Mass Tram addresses the problems and hazards faced by more expensive road and rail-based systems, and is emission and fuel-free, powered by 100% renewable energy. The Inter-city Tram will be silent and fast, with cost savings captured by adapting retired Jet airliners to travel at high-speeds overhead. An Oregon sustainable travel development group, Mass Tram America, has designed what might be described as a rapid air-bus alternative. It is an adjunct to existing systems that is to be powered by 100% renewable energy that is built into the transit system. Inter-city Tram cars will be silent and fuel-free, with cost savings provided by adapting retired Jet airliners, to travel at high-speeds overhead, powered by electric motors and renewabe energy, and suspended overhead in a design informed by suspension bridges proven to survive storms and earthquakes. The air Tram is proected to be less expensive to build than rail or roads, and offers to open new scenic travel routes, and a way to eliminate winter travel hazards, an option for holiday travel when air travel is halted by weather, and will reduce rush-hour congestion and rail slow-downs due to freight schedules and accidents. for more information. Mass Tram developers invite partnerships to build a prototype high-speed transit alternative that can offer an excellent view of the American countryside. Readers may assist the Public-benefit company in community planning for the prototype, cross-country route siting, Rights of Way permissions, and leveraging federal help to revitalize communities with economic develpment support along proposed routes. The Mass Tram transit alternative is offered as an enjoyable inter-city solution for routine business travel, a way to bring tourism and a diesel-free freight shipping, to benefit communities along new travel routes.

Oregon Road Reference

Came accross this and this, but wasn't sure if anyone here had seen them. Good for Oregon routes. Aboutmovies 19:57, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Oregon Airports

Good day all, I have started a List of private-use airports in Oregon. In addition, I will be updating the List of Airports in Oregon soon as I get it completed. (I have not segregated them into types or added IATA/ICAO data). Feel free to take a look and pitch in all you like. Any advice or input would be appreciated -Trashbag 19:37, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Greetings again everyone, Oregon now has an article for every active public use and private use airport/heliport/seaplane base within the state (I believe we are the first). Please take a moment to review a few articles and pitch in on anything you may know. Also, feel free to create links to individual articles so the don't appear orphaned. If anything it's fun to check out the airfields near you may live. Some fun tidbits:

• Oregon has 358 private use airports and 98 public use airports - a ratio of approximately 4 to 1.
• Of the 450+ airports in Oregon only 10 are certified for scheduled airline service.
• Ever see an airport that had a dirt runway and a water runway?

--Trashbag (talk) 23:41, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Nice work. I appreciate how much work that was, since I've done that with similar series of articles which obtain information from the gum mint. Dirt runway? Looks paved.... —EncMstr 00:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the kudos. I pulled all of my data from the FAA so according to them it's "Gravel". I found quite a few errors in their database. I believe the public airports are inspected every three years but the private airports are only inspected one time so things may have changed at the site. Either way, looks like a fun place! --Trashbag (talk) 00:36, 17 January 2008 (UTC)