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Behavior in the “Commons”
Miles, a regular reader and frequent commenter here, recently posted his experience feeling threatened on MAX on his own blog, documented life. This has gotten me thinking about how we as members of society interact with each other when we meet in our “commons”, the spaces that we share public ownership and use of. The…
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South Waterfront Pedestrian Bridge Open House Tonight
Offer your input into what a pedestrian bridge from the South Waterfront to the Corbett-Terwilliger-Lair Hill neighborhood should look like at a PDOT open house tonight. Wednesday, June 21, at 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Portland State University Smith Memorial Student Union – Room 329 1825 SW Broadway Portland, OR – The Portland Office of Transportation…
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Flexcar Policy at City Council Tomorrow
For those of you who followed our discussion of City policy on use of on-street parking spaces for car-sharing, the proposed policy is on the City Council agenda for 9:30 tomorrow (6/21) time-certain [time certain means it can’t start before that time, it will almost certainly start a few minutes later]. Come down and share…
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Do Ghost Bikes Help or Hurt?
At the bike summit on Saturday, there was an interesting comment in the “Why People Don’t Ride” session. Ghost Bikes scare people. The white bicycles, placed at locations where riders have been killed are (as I understand it) intended as a combination memorial and reminder to our leaders that we need to make conditions safer.…
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Commuter Decision Making
One of the nice things about the bike summit was the opportunity to make connections. Either putting faces on names that might have just been an e-mail address before, or meeting new people. One new connection for me was a PSU instructor who is doing a study on how people make commuting choices. He’s recruiting…