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Signs of Bicycle Progress (mostly) in the Pearl
On my morning bike ride earlier this week, I was waiting at the light to turn onto the Broadway Bridge to go to my favorite east-side breakfast food cart and witnessed an incident that mostly gave me hope for our collective cycling progress… Two women came down the Lovejoy ramp (positive, a greater proportion of…
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My First Bike Commute Challenge
I’m participating in the Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s Bike Commute Challenge this month for the first time. I’ve been a telecommuter for 10 years+, so I’ve never thought I quite fit into the process. But this year a brilliant fellow telecommuter created “Team Telecommute” and I happily joined. Now all my trips to meetings, shopping, etc.…
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KBOO Bike Show: The Suburbs
Listen to the show (mp3, 25.8MB) We explore bringing cycling to the suburbs with Washington County, our neighbor to the west. While Portland likes to ring it’s proverbial bike bell for being bike friendly, we’re talking to Hal Ballard, Executive Director at the Washington County Transportation Coalition, Heather McCarey, Executive Director of the Westside Transportation…
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Why I Support Bike Sharing in Portland
A number of months ago I signed on to a letter in support of using several million dollars from the regional share of Federal flexible transportation dollars to help jump start a bike sharing system in Portland. And although a number of friends and organizations that I’m normally allied with are questioning that priority, I’m…
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My Bionic Bike Ride
Saturday I joined about 100 other local electeds, planners, advocates and policy wonks for the 7th Annual “Visionaries Voyage” (also known in the past as the Policymakers Ride). This is a yearly bike ride that visits regional open spaces and natural areas and explores existing and potential trail network opportunities. In recent years this has…