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Good Stuff at Sightline
Three great posts yesterday over at the Sightline Institute’s Daily Score: Empty Sidewalks? – Kids aren’t walking to school any more PAYD in Full – Pay as you drive auto insurance Guilt Tripping – Finding better ways to motivate modal choices
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Trying to Get Government to Blog
We have a few examples of elected officials with blogs. Locally, commissionersam.com is the stand-out example. Even Mayor Potter has a blog of sorts. But how about using blogs to really involve citizens in the process of government? Again the City of Portland has a start at this, with a blog on the Charter Review…
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Stronger Calls to Action Needed?
An op-ed in Saturday’s New York Times suggests that the current dialog around Global Warming produces lots of anxiety but no action. How can we challenge our society, here in our region, in our country, or globally, to take meaningful actions?
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Fine Wine and Car-bashing
We had a conversation here last week that kicked off with a quote from Metro President David Bragdon and developed into a series of analogies about cars, roads and congestion. This kind of stuff often gets us accused of car-bashing. So let me set the record straight. I like cars. My family of 3.5 drivers…
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Become a “Transportation Ambassador”
The Portland Office of Transportation’s Options Division is looking for a few good men …. er … people. Learn how to help inform your fellow citizens about the panoply of transporatation choices in our fair city. And there’s a T-shirt involved! [Credit to the ORBike blog for pointing me to this.]