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KBOO Bike Show: The Metal Cowboy
Listen to the show (mp3, 12.6M) Featuring Joe Kurmaskie, also known as the Metal Cowboy, on how touring across the country with his kids brought him to a new point in his life. Jerden Freeauf talks about a solo cross country trip. And … the new THEME SONG.
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RTP Exercise – Solutions – Compact Development
We’ve discussed what’s working, we’ve discussed the challenges, now the final question for the exercise is how do we get there? What are the solutions that will get us to our outcomes? “Compact Development” scenario outcomes: A seven-year-old on a bike should be able to safely and comfortably travel from his/her home to an elementary…
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Anatomy of a Crash
Sam Adams apparently has some concept of the limitations of his power as Transportation Commissioner. Last week he convened what he’s calling an “operator’s steering group” of all the agencies that have something to with operating transportation in the City of Portland. I scored an invitation, I’m not sure whether it was for my Streetcar…
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Portland Videos on Streetsblog
Filmmaker Clarence Eckerson (featured at Saturday’s film festival) writes: Hello all, There will be a featured Portland video short every day for the next week. HERE: http://www.streetsblog.org/ We want to get a dialogue started, esp. from folks in Portland who’d like to inspire New Yorkers about what else is good/not so good, so PLEASE leave…
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RTP Exercise – Challenges – Compact Development
The next phase of the RTP exercise is to look at challenges. [By the way, Jim and Adron, I’m still waiting for your outcome sets to examine in parallel with this one.] As a reminder, my selected outcomes are below. The question for this post is what challenges are getting in the way of making…