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KBOO Bike Show: Ring in the New Year
Listen to the show (mp3, 36M) Ring in the new year with the KBOO Bike Show and get the year started on a bikey note. Carl Larson and Ayleen Crotty are hosting a bike music party in the KBOO studios with the Trash Mountain Boys (bike rock) and DJ Crow (fresh bike cuts) live on…
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Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: Bikey New Year
We celebrate the new year with the Trash Mountain Boys live in the studio. We’ll also be asking for your new year bikey resolutions and hopes for a great bike town. 9-10AM, Wednesday, January 2nd KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm Podcast here later that day
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Federal rules prefer buses over streetcar expansion
An article in Thursday’s Oregonian explains how the Bush administration’s rules attempt to prevent streetcar lines from competing with bus rapid transit for federal funds. To quote Peter DeFazio: “It’s set up to make streetcar never pencil out.” Here’s how: At stake is about $200 million in federal money that could provide the first national…
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Another Rail Line Bites the Dust?
An article in the Oregonian suggests that public sector leaders my decide that after damage from recent storms the cost of repairing the Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad is simply too high.
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Double Decking
A guest post from regular commenter Garlynn Woodsong: Recently, we have discussed the testing in San Francisco of a double-decker bus, which will then move on to Las Vegas, NV to go into full service as a part of the fleet serving their Deuce line. Tri-Met is currently running its fleet on B5 biodiesel, and…