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Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: Women for Bikes
The KBOO studios just might catch fire with all the powerhouses on air for this month’s KBOO Bike Show featuring the Women for Bikes program. Guests include Alison Hill-Graves from the Community Cycling Center, Janis McDonald from the City of Portland and Barb Grover from the Bike Gallery. 9-10AM, Wednesday, December 5th KBOO FM 90.7…
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Portland’s Cycling History
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Eric Lundgren Topic: The Wheels of Fortune: Weather Prophet Pague, Governor Geer, & Portland’s Original Network of Cycle Paths A little over a century ago Portland was building and enjoying a network of dedicated bicycle paths. For a brief and glorious half-decade,…
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By Request: WES to Salem
To head off a full-blown hijack on another thread, I’m opening up this post for discussion of extending Washington County Commuter rail down to Salem. The commuter rail line is now known as WES (Westside Express Service).
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The Case for Rail
A nice post on the Intermodality blog reviews a ridership survey for Houston’s transit system and makes some nice points about the demographics of rail riders, including the ability of rail to attract new users to transit
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REMINDER: We Are ALL Traffic
Update: There will be a number of bike rides from sites of fatal crashes to the Saturday rally. I will be leading one from NW 23rd and Quimby where Sara Cogan, a pedestrian crossing NW 23rd, was killed in 2006. We’ll assemble at 11:10am on Saturday for that ride. The bicycle community is responding in…