Category: Modes

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Why We Walk

    The national advocacy organization America Walks has just released a national walking survey, please go help fill in the picture.

  • How important are new riders to transit, and how hard should the region work to attract them?

    A discussion of the importance of new ridership to TriMet, and how hard the region should work to woo them.

  • Can We Intersect the Politics of Bikes and the Politics of Thrift?

    While we avoided a government shutdown a few weeks ago, it seems clear that the 2012 Federal budget is going to involve some heavy cost-cutting. And infrastructure dollars have been getting harder and harder to find at the local level for some time. So I’d like to suggest that we consider promoting cycling as a…