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Two Metro councilors receive transportation awards

May 12, 2010 9:55 a.m.

Metro councilors Carlotta Collette and Kathryn Harrington have been honored with Woman of the Year awards by the Portland Chapter of the Women's Transportation Seminar. The group cited their leadership and hard work toward achieving agreement on the region's urban and rural reserves process.

New Town Center Station generates excitement – and jobs – in Clackamas County

May 11, 2010 4:39 p.m.

When the recently completed Town Center Station residential development officially opened in Happy Valley on May 4, it brought with it a new vision of affordable, urban living to an area most often identified with a regional shopping mall and Interstate 205.

Town planning expert to speak on centers and corridors at May series

May 7, 2010 11:45 a.m.

Internationally known town planner Andres Duany, co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, will speak as part of an upcoming discussion series in Portland, "Growing the greatest places: New strategies and tools to regenerate the centers and corridors." Duany will speak May 12 to May 14 at four events, at Metro and other locations around Portland.

Go behind the scenes of Metro’s Bike There! map

May 7, 2010 10:43 a.m.

Visitors check out Metro's newest Bike There! map. Metro's Bike There! map has a long legacy stretching back, not decades, but more than a century. On Thursday, May 6, Metro Senior Transportation Planner Matthew Hampton took visitors behind the scenes of the Bike There! map which has its roots in the first bicycle map ever produced in the region. The year was in 1896.

Metro partners to improve eastside MAX station areas

May 5, 2010 3:34 p.m.

East County residents will begin to see upgrades that enhance existing light rail stations and improve neighborhood connections. In addition to a new station at Civic Drive in Gresham, work is under way from Northeast 82nd Avenue all the way to the end of the Blue Line at Cleveland Avenue.

Celebrate National Bike Month with Metro's new Bike There! map

May 3, 2010 5:30 p.m.

May is National Bike Month and Metro is encouraging you to bike there, whether you are commuting, exercising or just having fun. To help you find the safest and most direct routes, Metro's new eighth edition Bike There! map, which is printed on durable, waterproof paper, is hot off the press and available at area retailers for $9.

What is the best way to plan and pay for new urban areas?

April 30, 2010 10:43 a.m.

The Metro Policy Advisory Committee met April 28 to look at how best to plan and pay for important public structures and services before new land is brought into the urban growth boundary.

Metro, local leaders seek better ways to maintain and build public structures

April 28, 2010 5:06 p.m.

Historically, the region added land to the urban growth boundary without making agreements about who would pay for or manage needed roads, bridges, pipes, parks and other public structures.

HUD deputy secretary visits Portland; discusses federal Sustainable Communities Initiative grants

April 23, 2010 3:51 p.m.

Ron Sims, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, issued a timely call this morning for the Portland region to be bold in pursuing greater equity for low-income residents and communities of color as it plans for the future.

Nobel peace prize winner addresses climate change with local leaders

April 2, 2010 3:54 p.m.

Climate change is irreversible. That's the bad news delivered by international climate change expert and Nobel peace prize recipient Dr. William Moomaw to a group of 200 elected officials and local leaders. The good news is that acting now will make a huge difference and collaborative efforts on the part of individuals, private industry and all levels of government can drastically reduce the rate of climate change.

Beaverton opens its first year-round homeless shelter

Growing the 'Greatest Places': A discussion with Andres Duany