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Outside Perspective on our Bike Plans
Last week, I had the opportunity to sit in on a presentation (PDF, 1.7M) by Dr. Eric France, the director of preventative medicine for Kaiser in Colorado. Dr. France spent much of the summer here in Portland learning about our bicycle efforts. The whole presentation was great, and Dr. France’s observations about the health benefits…
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KBOO Bike Show: Racing and Differently Abled Cyclists
Listen to the show (mp3, 25.7MB) This month host Tori Bortman visits the first half hour with Kenji Sugahara, Director of the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association (OBRA) and Lindsay Kandra, Portland Coordinator for the OBRA High School Cyclocross Program to talk about this exciting piolot program and how it plans to make Oregon’s young adults…
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Putting Speed at the Top of the Agenda
The City of Portland is likely to put getting local control over speed limits at the top of its Legislative Agenda for the next session. BikePortland.org has excellent coverage. I couldn’t agree more. The idea that speeds on local streets should be controlled by a committee in Salem that doesn’t even meet any more is…
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Digging Deeper in the CRC IRP Report
Most of the local press coverage tends to present the Independent Review Panel report on the Columbia River Crossing as an “endorsement” or “approval” of the project. While there is no question that IPR concurs that a project is necessary, the report is actually fairly critical, not the rubber stamp that many of skeptics feared.…
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CRC Project Sponsors Council Ready to Slip its Leash?
August 9th is the last scheduled meeting of the Columbia River Crossing project “Sponsors Council”, the group of local elected and agency officials that has been about the only check on this project. In the view of the project, the Council has served its purpose and is finished. Indeed, I’m told the project has gone…