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Wanted: Advocate
I got a note yesterday that Jessica Roberts, the BTA’s regional advocate extraordinaire, is leaving BTA to join Alta Planning. The BTA’s loss will be Alta’s gain – Mia Birk is collecting quite a pool of bikey talent there, and in the long run that’s a good thing for our community and a lot of…
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Rise to The Challenge
The official press release on the BTA’s Bike Commute Challenge is out. Everyone who wants to reduce our dependence on autos and petroleum should try this out. See how many times in September you can get to work on your bike, or a combination of bike and transit. And get your co-workers in on the…
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The Ultimate in Hands Free
The folks who promote dual-mode transportation should be happy to see this development, it’s the next step on the way to their concept: a car that parks itself, or even handles itself in stop-and-go traffic. Read all about it from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal.
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Behind on my Reading
A few weeks ago I received an e-mail note about a book called “How to Live Well without Owning a Car.” I picked up a copy at Powells, but it’s still sitting in my ‘to read’ stack. My intent was to write a piece about it when I finished (in my defense, I’m reading another…
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Sidewalk (Dis)Order
Aggressive panhandling and other ‘sidewalk fear-factor behaviors’ have been brought up on this site before. Gordon Price just posted an interesting perspective on the experience in Vancouver on his Price Tags blog. Here’s an excerpt: What was happening in the West End was a failure of government to maintain social order. And that could happen…