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Bike Safety Leadership Workshop on Friday
This Friday, August 26, from 9-noon, there will be a Bike Safety Leadership Workshop at Southeast Uplift. There will be a Workshop in each neighborhood district coalition in the city. These meetings will be an opportunity to create a common understanding about bicycle safety issues and to initiate a bicycle safety group in each neighborhood…
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Welcoming Visitors to Hollywood – By Any Mode
Guest contributor Patrick Donaldson is a member of the Hollywood Boosters. As one of Portland’s oldest organized business districts the Hollywood District continues to identify new methods of attracting and keeping customers for the various goods and services available in our Northeast Portland community. During the expansion of bicycle lanes throughout the city it became…
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A Variation on Yellow Bikes?
Editor’s note: Jerry passes on this link to a bike rental program in France: Rentabike moves up a gear from curiosity to runaway success Could this be made to work in Portland? Is there a market for bicycle rentals if access is made convenient enough?
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Bridge Pedal ’05
The brainchild an ex-county commissioner, Rick Bauman, Bridge Pedal has exploded since its rough beginning 10 years ago to becoming the place to be on the third Sunday of August. 20,000 or so riders packed the streets and bridges today, so many, in fact, that there were traffic jams!!! But, the big difference was, everyone…
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Crossing the Willamette on Sunday (sans Bike)
If you’re not one of the 19,000 of us who will be crossing and re-crossing the Willamette River on Sunday during the Providence Bridge Pedal, then you might want to look at the following to help get around. TriMet has provided information on bus detours and Mike Pullen from the County passes along the following:…