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Coming up on the KBOO Bike Show: Cycling in 2030
This month’s show takes stock of cycling in Portland and looks at the Bicycle Plan for 2030. 11AM-Noon, Wednesday, December 2nd KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm Podcast here later that day
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Local Streetcar Manufacturing At the Table for Obama Job Summit
Chandra Brown of United Streetcar (a subsidiary of Oregon Iron Works) is one of 100 business people who will be at President Obama’s December jobs summit. Here’s the press release from Congressman Blumenaur: Blumenauer Announces United Streetcar President Chandra Brown to Join President Obama at Jobs Summit Portland, OR -Congressman Blumenauer (D-Ore) announced today that,…
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Funding Bikes Through Transit
Last week, in a post about bike funding, I alluded to a proposal to allow more bike facilities to be funded as part of transit projects. Now Congressman Blumenaur’s office is urging advocates to comment on the proposal: Dear Transit, Bicycle, and Pedestrian Friends and Colleagues, As Jonathan Maus posted in the Nov. 16 edition…
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Talking to Conservatives About Rail Transit
Streetfilms has a great video with William Lind, a conservative transit advocate, about how to talk about transit in terms that conservatives will appreciate. I would also note that the late Paul Weyrich, who co-founded the Heritage Foundation, was a trail transit advocate, evening making that point while serving on an infrastructure panel for the…
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Some Useful Stimulus
Sidewalk projects on Barbur, 82nd and NE Glisan using Federal stimulus funding are approaching construction.