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Our Streetscape Future: Turning Japanese?
The following is a dramatization of actual events. Actual dialog and concepts presented have been compressed and highlighted for loggification purposes: So I’m sitting there at the sushi bar with Portland’s Consul General from Japan, asking him for advice on my upcoming fellowship study (which isn’t easy to do in Japanese – especially as the…
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KBOO Bike Show: Safety and Bike Blogs
Listen to the show (mp3, 12.7M) Safety for cyclists Jonathan Maus from bikeportland.org, a popular Portland bike blog, talks about great bike blogs and other bike-related web sites.
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The “Portland Bicycle”
One of the pieces of news this week from the Federal Transportation Bill was funding to prototype local manufacture of streetcars, so that we might have a true “Portland Streetcar”. Well, Portland Transport doesn’t have $4M for a project, but we do have a very creative audience. On several threads it has been remarked that…
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We’re Not Alone!
Speaking of bikes… When we launched this site, we were under the impression that we were starting the first transportation-related blog in the region. But we find that someone got there first, at least for one mode. Jonathan Maus has been running Bike Portland for a while now, moving it from Oregon Live to its…
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Be Safe Out There
Today’s Portland Tribune features an article titled Walk, ride at your peril reporting about the nine pedestrian and cyclist fatalities this year so far. So today’s question is: are these just a statistical blip, or are there systematic issues going on involving the transportation system, or behavioral changes by drivers, pedestrians or cyclists?