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Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: The New Guy
Rob Sadowski, the new executive director of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, is interviewed. 11AM-Noon, Wednesday, October 6th KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm Podcast here later that day
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KBOO Bike Show: Lose The Training Wheels
Listen to the show (mp3, 25.9MB) Learn about Bike First, a program that works with youngsters and adults who experience difficulty getting past training wheels and onto conventional two-wheelers. And in the second half hour, we talk with Johnny Olivan of Rejuiced Bikes, a Portland-based business that builds pedal-powered vehicles of the most incredible kind.
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Bicycles IN Airports
We all know that PDX has made it manageable (I won’t quite say easy, yet) to take a bike to or from the airport. But I’m now returning from an extended trip to the east coast (if you’ve noticed my post volume is down a bit, now you know why) and on this trip I’ve…
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Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet
That’s the subtitle of Mia Birk’s new book “Joyride”. Mia is CEO of Alta Planning and was Bicycle Coordinator for the City of Portland during the period when much of today’s bicycle network was conceived and initially implemented. The book is constructed as autobiography, but in fact serves as a very insightful history of how…
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Outside Perspective on our Bike Plans
Last week, I had the opportunity to sit in on a presentation (PDF, 1.7M) by Dr. Eric France, the director of preventative medicine for Kaiser in Colorado. Dr. France spent much of the summer here in Portland learning about our bicycle efforts. The whole presentation was great, and Dr. France’s observations about the health benefits…