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Looking Under the Couch Cushions for Small Change
Anna Griffin has a piece in yesterday’s in Portland section of the Oregonian (City turns to parking in drive to fix roads). The idea is to figure out what the parking permits that a number of different categories of organizations (press, non-profits, etc.) use to skip paying at parking meters are really “worth” (in the…
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Bike Maps for Geeks
Heads up for a presentation at Metro on Thursday, August 31st at 9AM. Jack Newlevant, from Metro’s data resource center, will talk about how Metro’s data can be used to find better bike routes (using travel times, etc.). And Wyatt Baldwin will present on his great byCycle tool.
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Beyond Fryer Grease
The Portland Development Commission has released a report they commissioned on the availability of feedstock for a potential metro-area biodiesel refinery capable of producing one half million gallons annually. The winner: Canola, which can be grown in the Willamette Valley or in Eastern Oregon. The report is a great primer on seed crop production, and…
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Paying Attention to the Wrong Stuff
I’ve commented here before about the tendency for citizens to get up in arms about projects, when they didn’t pay attention to the policies that were adopted years before that enable those projects. An article from Sunday’s Oregonian makes a related point: citizens will get in an uproar about small things, while often ignoring major…
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Bike Success in Southern Oregon
I received this note from down south: Our local NPR station, Jefferson Public Radio, generously gave 7+ minutes of radio time for the Bike First! Follow up. Just go to the link below and click on the little speaker icon next to “Program gets Drivers commuting by bike” to listen. Eric Teel, the journalist, is…