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KBOO Bike Show: Getting Muddy
Listen to the show (mp3, 25.6MB) This month’s Bike Show will go behind the scenes with bike racing. Guests Rick Potestio, Tony Kic and Sue Butler talk about getting muddy building race courses, where to ride around Portland if you want to ride fast, and how to get the peloton to stop with you when…
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Safety First!
Transportation for America has released a new report “Dangerous by Design” (PDF, 1.6M) scoring safety for people walking and riding bicycles state by state and metro area by metro area. Oregon’s rankings are here. Portland ranked as the 7th least dangerious metro, but there are still far too many injuries and deaths and we have…
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The plight of the auto-dependent motorist
A discussion of the “auto dependent” and “choice” motorists.
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KBOO Bike Show: Cycling Authors
Listen to the show (mp3, 26.5MB) Tori and Michelle interview Sue Macy, Author of Wheels of Change, How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) and Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, editor of Cycling – Philosophy for Everyone: A Philosophical Tour de Force. Both books are available as premiums in KBOO’s…
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Why We Walk II
Last post we were being asked, now someone is going to explain it to us: Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Robert Schneider, UC Berkeley Topic: How Do People Choose a Travel Mode? Factors Associated with Routine Walking & Bicycling Abstract: Walking and bicycling are being promoted as…