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Electronic Paid Bike Parking Comes to the Region
Vancouver will be introducing new bike lockers using pre-paid chip cards. Check out the technology at www.bikelink.org. An EPA grant is helping fund the effort. The introduction event will be tomorrow (Tuesday, 6/20) at noon at 1300 Franklin St. in Vancouver. Thanks to Todd Boulanger for the heads up.
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Coming Down from the Summit
The tone of Saturday’s Bicycle Summit was set for me when a fellow Portland Transport contributor sat down and said “I hope there won’t be a lot of self-congratulatory crap.” (You know who you are.) Of course, there was some celebration of where we’ve come from and what we’ve accomplished, but it was also acknowledged…
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Sauvie Island Bridge Headed for the Scrap Heap
Word just in from Commissioner Sam Adams’ office that efforts to move the Sauvie Island Bridge to NW Portland to complete a bikeway on Flanders Street over I-405 are being dropped. The Commissioner’s office indicates that community response was not sufficient to justify the extra cost of moving the bridge (rather than constructing a smaller-but-to-code…
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Bikes in the Spotlight
It’s a good week for bikes: over 300 people have registered for this weekend’s Bicycle Summit (it’s not too late to register). And a new study commissioned by PDOT shows that cycling contributes $63 million annually to Portland’s economy. Check out the story at Bike Portland for all the details. Update: BTA has just released…
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Incenting Behavior Change
Remember the old advertising jingle, “I’d like to buy the world a coke…”, well how about a new version: “I’d like to buy the world a bike…” Here’s a success story from the Rogue Valley on getting folks to change their transportation patterns. In April of 2005, fifteen courageous Rogue Valley citizens committed to giving…