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Wanted: Advocate
I got a note yesterday that Jessica Roberts, the BTA’s regional advocate extraordinaire, is leaving BTA to join Alta Planning. The BTA’s loss will be Alta’s gain – Mia Birk is collecting quite a pool of bikey talent there, and in the long run that’s a good thing for our community and a lot of…
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Rise to The Challenge
The official press release on the BTA’s Bike Commute Challenge is out. Everyone who wants to reduce our dependence on autos and petroleum should try this out. See how many times in September you can get to work on your bike, or a combination of bike and transit. And get your co-workers in on the…
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Bike Master Plan Update Kickoff Event Tonight
At Southeast Uplift: Making Portland a World Class Bicycling City: Tuesday, August 29th, 6:30 p.m., Southeast Uplift How has the City and its citizens made Portland the #1 U.S. city for bicycling? How can we join Amsterdam and Copenhagen as a world-class bicycling city? What do you like about bicycling in Portland? What would you…
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Bike Maps for Geeks
Heads up for a presentation at Metro on Thursday, August 31st at 9AM. Jack Newlevant, from Metro’s data resource center, will talk about how Metro’s data can be used to find better bike routes (using travel times, etc.). And Wyatt Baldwin will present on his great byCycle tool.
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Bike Success in Southern Oregon
I received this note from down south: Our local NPR station, Jefferson Public Radio, generously gave 7+ minutes of radio time for the Bike First! Follow up. Just go to the link below and click on the little speaker icon next to “Program gets Drivers commuting by bike” to listen. Eric Teel, the journalist, is…