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Care to Work for the BTA?
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY with the Bicycle Transportation Alliance Safe Routes to School Program Coordinator Description$11-13.50/hr./DOE (Full-time 40hr per week position) The Safe Routes to School (SR2S) Program Coordinator will work with the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) and Willamette Pedestrian Coalition (WPC) to coordinate walking and biking encouragement and education programs in 8 Portland Public Schools. The…
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Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: Weight Loss
This month on the KBOO Bike Show the topic is major weight loss. Sara and Ayleen will 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. 9-10AM, Wednesday, August 2nd KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm…
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Advertising Sustainability
A reader passed me this link to a database of advertising around sustainability. Here’s the “transport” category. I love the Audi ad for car-free day. Can you imagine GM doing something like that?
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Big Look and Transportation: Part 2
Taking a “Big Look” at Transportation and Land Use Planning in Oregon – Call To Action Previously, I explained that there are two transportation and land use programs at work in Oregon: the regulatory program many worry about and the follow-the-money program that matters more. As Alex Marshall puts it in How Cities Work: Suburbs,…
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Willamette Shoreline Transit/Trail Options Come into Focus
At a meeting Tuesday of the Steering Committee overseeing both the Eastside Streetcar project and the Willamette Shoreline analysis, a few things got clearer. The Lake Oswego Project Advisory Committee (LOPAC in Metro-speak) had recommended a dog’s breakfast of options for further review: 2 River Transit options 3 Streetcar options (in the current rail right-of-way,…