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KBOO Bike Show: Women for Bikes
Listen to the show (mp3, 22.5M) The KBOO studios just might catch fire with all the powerhouses on air for this month’s KBOO Bike Show featuring the Women for Bikes program. Guests include Alison Hill-Graves from the Community Cycling Center, Janis McDonald from the City of Portland and Barb Grover from the Bike Gallery.
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Vote for PAYD
That’s Pay-As-You-Drive auto insurance. Here’s a request from the Oregon Environmental Council: MileMeter (http://www.milemeter.com), a startup company that plans to offer pay-as-you-drive insurance, is one of 7 finalists (out of 900+ companies) in a national investment competition sponsored by Amazon. You can view a video of MileMeter and vote for which startup business will receive…
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Achterman to Head Transportation Commission
I’ll have a more detailed reflection on yesterday’s Oregon Business Plan Summit later, after I’ve digested all the documents. But one nice piece of news is that the Governor announced that he was appointing Gail Achterman as chair of the Oregon Transportation Commission. Achterman has been the most progressive voice on the Commission for some…
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Fixing Traffic Without Help From Uncle Sam
An article on Planetizen discusses efforts by governments across the country to address congestion and transportation funding problems without federal assistance. In addition to the usual suspects (HOT lanes, queue-jumper lanes, privately-owned toll roads), one idea caught my eye more than the rest: Finally, in a gambit straight out of the Jetsons, the Swedish government…