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Streetcar to Hibernate
The Streetcar is going on vacation! From Sept 13th to 26th, while we build the connection between the existing streetcar tracks in the Pearl to the new tracks coming over the Broadway Bridge, the streetcar will not operate. The problem is there is nowhere to turn around at the north end of the alignment. This…
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KBOO Bike Show: Lose The Training Wheels
Listen to the show (mp3, 25.9MB) Learn about Bike First, a program that works with youngsters and adults who experience difficulty getting past training wheels and onto conventional two-wheelers. And in the second half hour, we talk with Johnny Olivan of Rejuiced Bikes, a Portland-based business that builds pedal-powered vehicles of the most incredible kind.
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Bicycles IN Airports
We all know that PDX has made it manageable (I won’t quite say easy, yet) to take a bike to or from the airport. But I’m now returning from an extended trip to the east coast (if you’ve noticed my post volume is down a bit, now you know why) and on this trip I’ve…
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Connect Oregon III Hands Out $97M
Mostly to freight projects, with some transit and a few aviation projects.
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Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet
That’s the subtitle of Mia Birk’s new book “Joyride”. Mia is CEO of Alta Planning and was Bicycle Coordinator for the City of Portland during the period when much of today’s bicycle network was conceived and initially implemented. The book is constructed as autobiography, but in fact serves as a very insightful history of how…