-
Street by Street, Out of the Mud
Wearing my Planning and Sustainability Commission hat, I’ve been following for some time an effort by the Portland Bureau of Transportation know as Street-by-street. The intent is to address the many unimproved streets in the City (many in East Portland, and a few areas in NE and SE Portland). The source of the problem is…
-
KBOO Bike Show on Vacation…
Tomorrow KBOO will rebroadcast this episode…
-
M.O.M. Trailer is Back
About this time last year, I enthused about a Kickstarter project for a bicycle utility trailer adaptable to a variety of tasks. It didn’t fund then, but the project is back with more modest goals to get tooling put together to begin production. I’m excited to back the project, and I hope you’ll consider it…
-
KBOO Bike Show: Emergency!
Listen to the show (mp3, 27.4MB) Disaster strikes! How can we be prepared, and how can bicycles help us manage in a time of crisis? Our guests are Carmen Merlo, Director of the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management and Ethan Jewett, Organizer of this year’s inaugural Disaster Relief Trials.
-
Updated: Analyzing Barriers to Cycling
Updated: 6/8/12 The paper behind this presentation is now available (PDF, 6.3M). Original Post: 5/10/12 Last week’s PSU Transportation Seminar was particularly thought-provoking. Peter Furth of Northeastern University has developed a quantitative analysis methodology for evaluating the comfort level of links in a bicycle network (or put another way, how bike-friendly any given street is).…