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The Smartphone App I’m Waiting For
One of my key bicycle ‘gateway’ corridors is Naito Parkway. I use it to get from my neighborhood in NW Portland to the parts of downtown closest to the river, and to any east side destination south of Burnside (by crossing the Steel Bridge and accessing the Esplanade). But there’s a problem. The route is…
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KBOO Bike Show: Streetcar Tracks, Mayoral Candidate Jefferson Smith
Listen to the show (mp3, 25.7MB) AROW‘s Steve Bozzone discusses the challenges integrating streetcars and bikeways. Mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith is interviewed by Michelle and Steph.
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Connecting Bicycle and Rail Networks
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Ronald Tamse (City of Utrecht, Netherlands) Topic: Lessons from Utrecht: Connecting Bicycle and Rail Networks When: Friday, October 21, 2011, 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204
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Better Trips, Transformational Leadership
There was a flurry of news on Friday, describing TriMet’s new multi-modal trip planner. There is no question the planner is very cool. The ability to integrate bike and transit trip planning, better pedestrian routing to transit stops, and a myriad a bells and whistles (check out the ‘bike triangle’!) are a great step forward.…
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Reactions to Bicycle Planning: Beyond the Backlash
I missed the post on Streetsblog when this first came out (thanks to @groxie for tweeting it and catching my attention). A group of students at Hunter College produced a report: “Beyond the Backlash: Equity and Participation in Bicycle Planning” (PDF, 10.6M). The report resonates quite a bit with issues here in Portland: Better infrastructure…