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KBOO Bike Show: Immigrants and Refugees
Listen to the show (mp3, 25.9MB) We talk with staff from El Programa Hispano, Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO), and Portland’s Safe Routes to School program about walking and biking to school for our neighbors, particularly immigrants and refugees.
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KBOO Bike Show Special: Mayoral Candidates Max Brumm and Sam Belisle
Listen to the show (mp3, 23.3MB) The Bike Show’s coverage of the 2012 Mayoral race continues with a special edition featuring candidates Max Brumm and Sam Belisle.
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Future prospects for BRT in Portland
This past evening in the Twitterverse, I had a discussion with several fine folks, including Michael Andersen, intersection 911, and our very own Al M, on the future prospects for major capital improvements in the bus system, up to and including BRT. (Planned purchases of replacement busses, tardy as they are, are excluded). An oft-held…
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Electric Motorways?
University of Washington researcher Jerry Schneider points to a Swedish company (Elways) researching the concept of “electric motorways”–highways equipped with electric lines which can be used to energize and power vehicles traveling thereon. Elways proposed architecture consists of buried third-rail power, accessed by lowering a pickup shoe into a channel embedded in the road surface;…
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Digging Into TriMet’s Proposed Service Changes: NW Edition
It’s time once more to dive into TriMet’s proposed service changes. This time I will look at the areas where the vast majority of actual bus service cuts will be concentrated: NW Portland and St. Johns. First, here are the maps of current and proposed service: First of all, the big service cut. TriMet is…