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KBOO Bike Show: Framebuilders
Listen to the show (mp3, 12.7M) Carl and Tori talk with local framebuilders Natalie Ramsland and Tony Pereira about building bikes in Portland and the upcoming Oregon Handmade Bicycle Show happening on November 11th.
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Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger: Interstate and Greeley
Tip of the Hat to Commissioner Sam Adams who closed the right turn from Interstate onto Greeley after the second serious car/bike crash in two weeks. Wag of the Finger to the Portland Police Bureau who declined to issue a citation or conduct an investigation despite eyewitness accounts that would suggest the possibility of erratic…
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Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: Women for Bikes
A roundtable discussion with women who advocate for cycling. 9-10AM, Wednesday, November 7th KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm Podcast here later that day
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California Takes Microstep Toward High Speed Rail
Via Planetizen: About $15M just got allocated toward planning for an initial segment of a 700-mile high-speed rail corridor. More interesting, the idea that $10B toward the project could be on the ballot in 2008.
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Recognition
There’s a piece in the Daily Journal of Commerce today noting the confirmation of Scott Bricker as Executive Director of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (Scott has been interim since this summer). Scott and I have labored side-by-side on a number of issues since we both were appointed to TPAC (Metro’s technocratic – as opposed to…