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Tram Beneficiary: Bike Commuters
Over on BikePortland.org, Jonathan is reporting that bicycle parking at the lower Tram terminus is overflowing. He hypothesizes that many OHSU workers have wanted to commute by bike, but were daunted by the hill. The obstacle is now removed…
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Truck Only Lanes
Via Planetizen, at least nine states are looking at truck-only lanes.
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Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show:
Carl and Ayleen interview Portlanders who gave up driving for the month of July as part of the Low-Car-Diet Challenge. Hear how bikes fit into their transportation mix. Chris Smith will discuss transportation aspects of the upcoming Project Homeless Connect, along with volunteer opportunities. 9-10AM, Wednesday, August 1st KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm…
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Web of Streetcars
Most of Sam Adam’s speech at City Club on Friday was about the more dismal question of how to pay for maintenance, but the Oregonian coverage leads with the idea for a City-wide Streetcar plan. Sam hearkened back to the 1920’s when Portland had over 100 miles of Streetcar tracks. You can download the full…
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How Walkable is Your Neighborhood?
There’s an interesting new Google Maps Mashup called Walk Score that looks at how far it is from any given address to key services like a grocery store, drugstore, schools, parks, etc. and computes a walkability score. Mine was 95 out of 100 :-) Note that the site has had some problems with heavy traffic…