Concerned Citizens

Our first day in Portland has been very interesting, especially from a transit point of view. As some may remember, we’re here to enjoy and learn from the Portland Rose Festival, a sister festival to Fiesta San Antonio. They have one of the greenest festivals in the world so we want to see how they do it and possibly carry those ideas to Fiesta Verde to get us further along. However, as you might expect from my viewpoint, I’m looking at a lot more things in Portland. For one, I’m exploring their transit system and its impact on daily life in Portland. If you look at daily boardings, it’s number four behind Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, not bad for a city the size of Portland. There has to be something behind this system to make it work so well. There are other things I want to explore such as walkability and bike activity. But transit is definitely high on the list, especially since San Antonio keeps using it as a benchmark for our proposed system. Read more…