-
Cheesy but Informative
Our good friend and PDOT safety guru Greg Raisman asked us to post a link to PDOT’s new video explaining how bike boxes work. [Greg is the informative driver in the video :-) ] See it here: http://media.ci.portland.or.us/onthemovesmooth/onthemovesmooth.html
-
Clever Commute Spreads to Buses
Clever Commute has added the #12 bus line (actually two lines: #12 Sandy and #12 Barbur) to its options. Erik, I expect to see regular notices of service issues on Barbur from you :-) Clever Commute would like nominations for the next bus lines to add…
-
Paris Vélib’
Gordon Price has one of the best overviews I’ve seen of the Paris bikesharing/rental program in his “PriceTags” #101 (PDF, 2.8M). Let’s hope for a similar system here very soon. Speaking of bikes, I have a few spaces left ($75 each) at my table at the BTA’s “Alice in Paris” fundraiser on March 22nd. If…
-
US PIRG Report on Transit
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group recently released a report “A Better Way to Go” contrasting auto use and transit. Rather than review it here, I’ll point you to an excellent review on The Overhead Wire blog.
-
KBOO Bike Show: Bicycle Evangelism
Listen to the show (mp3, 13.05 MB) With their missionary zeal and promises of a better, fuller life, some of Portland’s bicyclists can begin to resemble evangelical Christians with their fervor and their conversion tactics. This month, Tori Bortman and Carl Larson discuss ‘bicycle evangelism’ with Bengt Halvorsen, Gregg Lavender, and Reverend Phil Sano. Callers…