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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…
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Looking for a Quick Ride?
Rent a bike! Similar to the Flexcar car sharing program, but perhaps paid for in part by advertising, we may soon be able to rent any of up to 500 bicycles in downtown Portland. From portlandonline.com: The City of Portland is accepting proposals for a bike rental system in the central city area. Imagine being…
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Congestion Costs and Solutions
This article, written by Todd Litman and published on Planetizen, broaches the possibility that the Texas Transportation Institute’s methodology for their annual Urban Mobility Report is flawed by using unrealistic expectations as a benchmark for measuring the cost of congestion. He suggests that a more realistic measurement of cost could be derived by using a…