John Charles quoted in an American Spectator article about Portland!
“Portland’s experience with public transport holds lessons for the rest of the country. But they’re not the lessons that the Rail-Volutionaries think they are.” Check out Cascade’s John Charles being...
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Makings lives better—by making them worse.
By Kristian Roggendorf So-called “liberal” utopianism results in a society that has neither liberty nor blissful living. Case in point: the ongoing car versus bike wars in Portland. While the civil...
View ArticleThe $1.5 Billion Milwaukie Light Rail Alternative
The video above is to help illustrate the enormity of $1.5 billion, and how little we will actually get for putting in the Milwaukie Light Rail line. We realize many of you will want to know how we...
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Latest Audit Shows TriMet Continuing to Circle the Drain
While TriMet is busy building a cool new transit-only bridge over the Willamette River and seizing expensive private property for the Milwaukie light rail line, the latest outside audit shows that the...
View ArticleFor Cirque du Soleil performance, cars prove more important than MAX
See my latest Letter to the Editor printed Thursday in the Oregonian about MAX use at the Expo Center’s Cirque du Soleil show, OVO. Mayoral candidate Charlie Hales asserted recently that the streetcar...
View ArticlePredicting TriMet’s Death Spiral
The Oregonian had a good page-one story on Sunday about the TriMet death spiral. The agency is steadily devolving from a transit district to a retirement and health-care center, with unsustainable...
View ArticleCascade in the Capitol: Columbia River Crossing Hearing Monday, Feb. 11
Governor John Kitzhaber’s proposed funding package for the Columbia River Crossing project (HB 2800) is up for a first hearing on Monday, February 11, at 3:00, in Hearing Room F at the Oregon State...
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This Week in the Capitol: Sales Tax and TriMet
Cascade’s John Charles and Steve Buckstein talked with legislators in Salem this week about the need to reform the TriMet transit agency and why Oregon voters are wary of instituting a sales tax. On...
View ArticleWashingtonians Voice Concerns About Light Rail Safety
Governor Kitzhaber insists that including light rail in the proposed 1-5 Columbia River Crossing plan is non-negotiable. But not everyone on the other side of the river is so enthusiastic about...
View ArticleProtecting consumers by forcing businesses to overcharge them?
Town car and taxi regulations across the country are facing heat for requiring certain “luxury” businesses to charge more for their services than other businesses, like taxis. In Portland, the City...
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The Portland Taxi Cartel’s Worst Nightmare
Have you ever taken a taxicab to the airport because you thought it would be cheaper than paying for parking? Well, I thought the plan was golden until I learned a taxi costs $55 dollars to get from my...
View ArticleCould We Really Be Driving on Platinum Streets?
While politicians may be forgiven for stretching facts when it comes to making their points, they shouldn’t totally ignore economic reality. That’s what seemed to happen on July 6, the last day of the...
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