Portland Transport

Category: Modes

  • Electric Vehicle Celebration Day 2011

    Tomorrow, July 9 2011, the Oregon Electric Vehicle Association will be presenting Electric Vehicle Celebration Day 2011 at Pioneer Courthouse Square from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM. The event is a “summer event that OEVA organizes to display our vehicles and educate the general public about EV benefits.”

  • KBOO Bike Show: Cycling and Health

    Listen to the show (mp3, 24.4MB) The Bike Show welcomes guests John Gorham, Wake Gregg and Chris Smith, three people for whom cycling has helped transform their health. All three suffer from serious health issues that cycling treats or manages– even with busy life/work schedules that challenge regular exercise. We discuss how they made the…

  • What Active Transportation Means to Me Personally

    I’ve been an advocate for “active transportation” – walking, biking and transit – since getting involved in public policy in Portland more than 15 years ago. But eight years ago when I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes it became something more for me, a very important part of managing my health. Tomorrow I’ll be…

  • Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: Cycling and Health

    Talking with people for whom cycling has been an important contributor to their health. 11AM-Noon, Wednesday, July 6th KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm Podcast here later that day

  • “Bridge School”

    (Updated July 5th – Original version contained a typo. If you have embedded or posted a link to the original video, please update your links. Thank you.) Just prior to yesterday’s groundbreaking ceremony (video here) for the new transit bridge over the Willamette river, Rob Barnard, TriMet’s director of the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Project, gave…