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Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: The Holiday Show
Welcome to our holiday show! It’s better to give than receive so with that in mind we’ll be interviewing the Community Cycling Center about the Holiday Bike Drive, taking a sneak peak with Elly Blue at the upcoming BikeCraft, and talking with our very first guest host, Janis McDonald, about how to pick out a…
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TriMet Announces Service Increases for Bus and MAX
From TriMet’s press release: Starting Sunday, Nov. 30, TriMet will add service on 13 of its 93 bus lines and MAX Blue Line to help relieve crowding. In addition, four bus lines will have minor service adjustments to improve schedule reliability. I’ll beat Erik to the punch here and note that I wish that TriMet…
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Passport Control Holding up Seattle to Vancouver Rail Service?
Passed on by a reader… Apparently all the necessary capital improvements have been made to add an additional daily train between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., but the Canadian Border Service is holding things up. Let’s hope they sort this out before the Olympics…
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LA Auto Show: Nissan announces electric car partnership with Oregon
From AutoBlogGreen: At the keynote speech this morning at the LA Auto Show, the president and CEO of Nissan/Renault, Carolos Ghosn, announced a new alliance with the start of Oregon to bring electric vehicles there in 2010. The deal will see “a supply” of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) available to the city of Portland, Oregon and…
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AWESOME Cycling
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2008 Transportation Seminar Series Speakers: IBPI Board Members/founders Mia Birk, Principal of Alta Planning + Design, Jay Graves, owner of the Bike Gallery, and Rex Burkholder, Metro Councilor Topic: Portland is Good, but Copenhagen and Amsterdam are AWESOME: Lessons Learned from the World’s Best Large Cycling Cities…