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Slow Down: That Means You Too
The folks over on the SHIFT list are working on an education event for Friday at a new safety hot spot: The bottom of the Broadway Bridge at NW 9th St. Fast-moving bikes coming down the ramp, coupled with cars that might or might not signal right turns are the ingredients for a lot of…
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KBOO Bike Show: Cycling and Weight Loss
This month on the KBOO Bike Show the topic is major weight loss. Sara and Ayleen interview Aaron Adam and Mike Rasmussen about how becoming regular cyclists has allowed them to loose significant weight, and what that journey has been like for them.
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Love Affair with Cars in need of Couples Therapy?
This comes from a regular reader: The Pew Research Center has released a report that finds that fewer Americans now enjoy driving than did in 1991. 69 percent now enjoy driving, down from 79 percent in 1991. You can read the executive summary or the entire report at Pew’s website: http://pewresearch.org/social/pack.php?PackID=16 A couple of the…
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Henry’s Lament
Last week’s meeting of the Burnside Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) was interesting from a number of points of view. First, the couplet continues to score best on virtually all the criteria. The ‘new’ news at this meeting was that it wins on travel time and on the urban design criteria.
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Costs, Costs, Costs
It’s enough to make strong project managers weep in their beer. Costs for most of the materials used in transportation projects are going up, up, up. Jim Mayer gives us the ugly details, and the impact on contract bidding, in yesterday’s O. How does that change the economics of the cost of congestion? Bike lanes…