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Thinking Less about Cars
Two recent items of note: over at carbusters.org, they’re sponsoring a design competition for reuse of spaces currently dedicated to autos. And at BikePortland.org, new contributor Elly Blue is calling for more temporary street closures to help envision how our communities could work with fewer cars.
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Help Organize a Car Free Day
Over at the SHIFT list, they’re looking for volunteers to help organize a car free day: This email is to gauge interest in a committee, working group, task force, or what have you with the purpose of promoting car-free projects in Portland. Particular tasks might include (with the first two items probably being priorities): –…
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Flexcar Low-Car Diet Challenge
Update 5 July 2006: Just got a press release: looks like the Challenge is having a kick-off event tomorrow (July 6) at 11am at Pioneer Courthouse Square with the Mayor and other dignitaries. Original Post 4 July 2006: A piece in this morning’s Trib profiles one family participating in a program sponsored by Flexcar, TriMet,…
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Rediscovering the Commons
Last week I wrote about poor behavior in our common spaces, linking to a particularly nasty experience one reader had on transit. Here’s the flip side. Over at the Daily Score Alan Durning is writing about rediscovering positive interactions (and some negative ones) in the commons, after getting out of his “car-coon”. I can vouch…
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Local Boy Makes Good: Flexcar on Smart City
Our own Steve Gutmann, a past Portland Transport contributor (now on to fame in national sales for Flexcar), is one of the guests on this week’s Smart City radio program. In fact, this week’s episode has a lot of Portland content, clearly influenced by Carol’s trip here last month. Joe Cortright is also a guest,…