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Portland Traffic and Transportation Class
Neighborhood traffic, alternative transportation and how to get things done in your neighborhood are the focus for this well respected 10-week university course. Hundreds of Portland residents have taken this popular class and learned how to negotiate the maze of traffic and transportation agencies and issues. Here’s your chance to hear about how you can make a difference even in these times of budget cuts and shrinking gas tax revenue. Speakers include policy and decision-makers, planners, and engineers from TriMet, Metro and Portland’s Office of Transportation. Facilitated by Rick Gustafson, transportation planning consultant and former Metro executive officer.
The course is sponsored by the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation System Management and Portland State University Urban Studies Program.
Classes will be held on Thursdays from 6:40 to 8:40 p.m., Sept. 30 to Dec. 9 at Portland State University.
This course is designed for the neighborhood activist, new or experienced, who wants to make a difference with regard to traffic and transportation in his or her Portland neighborhood.
Limited space is available for the 10-week class during the fall term. Full scholarships are available to qualified Portland residents for the non-credit course. To be eligible for a scholarship applicants must live in the city of Portland and not be a transportation or law enforcement professional. Deadline for scholarship application is Sept. 17. Tuition is $147 for non-credit or one credit and $293 for graduate credit.
To register or get more information on this course, call Dan Bower at 503-823-5667 or e-mail Dan.Bower@pdxtrans.org. To register online go to www.PortlandTransportation.org and click on Current News.
I-205 open house
Learn about the proposed 6.5-mile I-205 MAX Light Rail project at an open house to be held on Monday, Sept. 20 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at the ODOT Building, 3700 S.E. 92nd Ave. It will include general project information on the I-205 alignment and the eight new light rail stations. Project staff will be available to answer questions.
The I-205 project will bring high-capacity transit to Southeast Portland and Clackamas County. Light rail traveling the I-205 alignment would connect to the existing MAX tracks at Gateway Transit Center, and then travel to downtown Portland along I-84. Once the I-205 trains cross the Steel Bridge, they would then travel through downtown on new tracks to be built on the Portland Mall along Southwest 5th and 6th Avenues between Union Station and Portland State University.
Preliminary engineering is underway on the I-205/Portland Mall alignment. TriMet has submitted its application to the Federal Transit Administration to secure funding for the I-205/Portland Mall project. Construction could begin in 2006, with service beginning in 2009.
A visual simulation of the I-205/Portland Mall project is available, along with other project information at www.trimet.org or sign up for TriMet e-mail updates.
The last cruise in
The Chrysler Road/Track Car Club will host Pizza Baron’s End of Summer Cruise on Sunday, Sept. 26.
The event, at Southeast 122nd Avenue and Division Street from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., boasts trophies in over two dozens classes as well as a four-foot-tall trophy for Best of Show. There will be dash plaques for the first 100 cars, raffle prizes and a special People’s Choice award.
Registration will cost $12. Call 503-253-6133 or 503-658-6671 for more information.
Seminar for parents of teens
Being a parent of a teen can challenge the best of us as we balance providing support while preparing them for the world beyond high school.
If you are tired of the rant, rave and rescue method of parenting that teaches our children to be really good manipulators, there is a seminar Tuesday, Sept. 28 and Thursday, Sept. 30 in room L12 in the Community Center at Parkrose High School, 12003 N.E. Shaver St., from 6 to 8 p.m. that is just for you.
This Love and Logic Parenting Teens Program will provide practical, low stress ways of relating with your teenagers that will produce happy responsible, and appreciative children who turn into productive, resilient, well-adjusted, healthy adults.
Parkrose High School staff is trained in this discipline/accountability and relationship building approach that addresses how to get teenagers motivated to do well in school, how to stop the arguing and back talk, how to get children to do chores without reminders or hassles, how to raise children who appreciate their parents, teachers and others in their lives, and how to let our children know their choices affect the quality of their lives.
To learn more, call 503-408-2641.
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