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Hot as Heck Open Thread
Not the thread, the weather. Bike Portland reports on a new parking proposal from the City of Portland, on how to deal with the issue of tenants in no-parking-provided apartments consuming on-street parking in single-family neighborhoods: Neighborhoods could vote to create parking districts (encompassing the single-family-zoned areas); if established, then parking permits would be required…
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TriMet Southeast Draft Service Plan
The last of TriMet’s Service Improvement Plans, this one focusing on the Southeast–pretty much everything south of Division and east of the Willamette River–is now up for public review and comment. A brief description, and my thoughts.
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KBOO Bike Show: Women’s Racing
Listen to the show (mp3, 27.5MB) Alon and Jocelyn discuss women’s competitive and endurance cycling with Jenn Levo, Heather VanValkenburg and Hazel Gross from “Let’s Race Bikes” and Abby Watson from Rapha.
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Women’s World Cup Open Thread
Team USA will be playing in the women’s World Cup final this weekend, including a few members of the Portland Thorns. A few local notes: TriMet is banning vaping and therapy dogs, with a few exceptions. Vaping and e-cigs are to be treated like tobacco, and only licensed and trained assistance dogs (seeing-eye dogs and…