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Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: New Time Slot!
Note new time slot: 11am – Noon Let’s Celebrate Amazing Cyclists! Oregon is an amazing place to ride a bike not just because of the work of local and state governments. Ordinary citizens like you and me have worked tirelessly over the years in their own unique ways to improve the cycling landscape. Tune in…
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Hell Freezes Over, Congestion Gets Better
The Business Journal is reporting on data collected by Inrix, a traffic data provider, that indicates congestion improved in our region between 2007 and 2008, with the region moving from the 21st most-congested metro to 23rd.
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Development-Oriented Transit: Bus, Trolley Bus and Streetcar
How do we create pedestrian-friendly mainstreets and 20-minute neighborhoods? At the beginning of the last century Streetcars were the preferred tool, and here in Portland they are again at the beginning of this century here in Portland and increasingly in other U.S. cities. Of course it is not simply a matter of installing rails in…
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I’d Like to Feed a Few Good Ambassadors
As I have in previous years, I’m hosting a Portland Streetcar table at the BTA’s annual Alice B. Toeclips awards dinner (5pm on Saturday March 7th). I have several (paid for) seats available at the table and would like to offer them to folks interested in promoting comity between cycling and streetcars (there are no…
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The Problem of Distracted Pedestrians
A piece from NPR’s Weekend Edition explores the safety challenge of pedestrians who are distracted by cell phones, texting or simply listening to MP3 players, including the sad story of a teen whose iPod was so loud he didn’t hear the freight train that killed him. Now I’ve been know to walk the streets of…