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My First Bike Commute Challenge
I’m participating in the Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s Bike Commute Challenge this month for the first time. I’ve been a telecommuter for 10 years+, so I’ve never thought I quite fit into the process. But this year a brilliant fellow telecommuter created “Team Telecommute” and I happily joined. Now all my trips to meetings, shopping, etc.…
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Metro Exits CRC Review Loop
On a 5-0 vote today, the Metro Council authorized President Tom Hughes to sign the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Columbia River Crossing. And apparently Hughes signed just after the meeting. As to why this is a horribly bad idea, I can’t possibly say it better than Joe Cortright did in his testimony today…
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Could these be for More than Amazon?
Amazon is prototyping delivery lockers at 7-Eleven stores. This sounds like an interesting idea, but it seems a shame to me to only use them for Amazon. Why not let customers sign up to get all their UPS, Fedex and other deliveries at facilities like this? It would do wonders for reducting last-mile delivery VMT…
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KBOO Bike Show: The Suburbs
Listen to the show (mp3, 25.8MB) We explore bringing cycling to the suburbs with Washington County, our neighbor to the west. While Portland likes to ring it’s proverbial bike bell for being bike friendly, we’re talking to Hal Ballard, Executive Director at the Washington County Transportation Coalition, Heather McCarey, Executive Director of the Westside Transportation…