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KBOO Bike Show: Buying by Bike
Listen to the show (mp3, 25.2MB) Tori and Steph speak with PSU/OTREC researcher Kelly Clifton about her research on the consumer habits of folks using different modes of transportation (spoiler: people traveling by bike spend just as much, but in different patterns).
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How Not To
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I had the opportunity to travel back to my home town, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. I was right back in ‘motordom’, putting several hundred miles on a rental car driving between New York, Pittsfield and the Boston suburbs (and back). I was interested to note that North Street, the main street in town,…
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Updated Again: Sharpening Our Game on Bicycle Advocacy
Updated 11/14/13: BTA may be squirming a bit on their infographic, but the advocacy continues – they’re holding an Advocacy 101 training on November 19 (5:30pm), pizza by Old Town Pizza. Updated 11/13/13: BTA has updated the graphic with revised numbers. You can see the new graphic and the explanation of the changes at their…
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KBOO Bike Show: Ethicist
Listen to the show (mp3, 25.8MB) Michelle and Tori talk with Randy Cohen, formerly “The Ethicist” columnist for the New York Times, now host of “Person Place Thing“. They discuss the ethics of everything from paying your transit fare, to who gets the last bike share bike at a station, to whether it’s ethical (if not…
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I Beg Your Pardon, Streetcar Does Not Need to be Fixed
This year’s award for most inflammatory headline has to go to “Portland streetcar bottleneck needs $3.7 million fix less than a decade after tracks laid“. The story refers to finally double-tracking a section of the alignment between 4th Ave and PSU Urban Center around what is known as the “Jasmine Block”. This is not a…