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Portland Messengers Rate Mention in the The Economist
This week’s Economist includes an article datelined Portland that talks about a threat to bicycle messengers: electronic document transmission.
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Do Ghost Bikes Help or Hurt?
At the bike summit on Saturday, there was an interesting comment in the “Why People Don’t Ride” session. Ghost Bikes scare people. The white bicycles, placed at locations where riders have been killed are (as I understand it) intended as a combination memorial and reminder to our leaders that we need to make conditions safer.…
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Commuter Decision Making
One of the nice things about the bike summit was the opportunity to make connections. Either putting faces on names that might have just been an e-mail address before, or meeting new people. One new connection for me was a PSU instructor who is doing a study on how people make commuting choices. He’s recruiting…
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Electronic Paid Bike Parking Comes to the Region
Vancouver will be introducing new bike lockers using pre-paid chip cards. Check out the technology at www.bikelink.org. An EPA grant is helping fund the effort. The introduction event will be tomorrow (Tuesday, 6/20) at noon at 1300 Franklin St. in Vancouver. Thanks to Todd Boulanger for the heads up.
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Coming Down from the Summit
The tone of Saturday’s Bicycle Summit was set for me when a fellow Portland Transport contributor sat down and said “I hope there won’t be a lot of self-congratulatory crap.” (You know who you are.) Of course, there was some celebration of where we’ve come from and what we’ve accomplished, but it was also acknowledged…