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Open Thread – Fat Tuesday Edition
What’s on your mind?
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DIY Electric Bikeshare
This guy has designed a 7-pound add-on that converts a Citibike to an electric bike in seconds. It’s not in production yet, but since most of the bikes Alta deploys have similar design, I suspect it might well work here in Portland when we get bike share online.
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Editorial: The Name for the Bridge
I ran into Abigail Scott Duniway the other day.
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Streetcars as Part of the Transit Network
Curtis Ailes has long been a Portland Transport correspondent, living in Indianapolis. He and his family have recently moved to Portland and we’re happy to welcome him to the region and to Portland Transport! Recently, a tectonic jolt rocked the transit blogosphere as The Atlantic Cities’ Eric Jaffe penned a column supporting the notion that streetcars…
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The Air We Breathe
PSU Transportation Seminar: Measuring Urban Bicyclists’ Uptake of Traffic-Related Pollution Speaker: Alex Bigazzi, PhD candidate, Portland State University Topic: Measuring Urban Bicyclists’ Uptake of Traffic-Related Pollution When: Friday, February 28, 2014, 12-1 p.m. Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204 Abstracts: Urban bicyclists’ uptake of traffic-related air pollution is still not well quantified, due to a lack…