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Social Justice and Transportation
Last week I received an announcement for the Cascade Policy Institute’s Wheels to Wealth conference, subtitled “the role of auto ownership in reducing poverty”. My immediate reaction was that owning a car might be more of a financial burden than a benefit for a low income person, but I also thought about my own situation.…
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BTA Releases “Blueprint for Better Biking”
On October 6, 2005, the BTA released our Blueprint for Better Biking: 40 Ways to Get There. The report provides a strategy and roadmap to increase bicycling in the Portland metro area. The report provides 40 essential projects, programs, and policies that are critical to bringing the region to the next level, and a “Top…
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Centers and Corridors
Strip malls are a dying breed. That was the starting point for a discussion of corridor planning at yesterday’s Metro “Get Centered” brown-bag event. The market for retail is now reorganizing to favor interchanges and crossroads. Long corridors of strip malls are out. The prototypical example held out from our region is Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway. The…
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KBOO Bike Show: BTA Director Evan Manvel and the Ghost Bike Project
Listen to the show (mp3, 11.6M) BTA Executive Director Evan Manvel discusses bicycle advocacy, safety and “sharrows”. Forrest Burris talks about the Ghost Bike project, memorializing cyclists killed by autos by erecting white bicycles at the crash sites. The Walk + Bike to School program is also discussed.
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Bicycles Outselling Cars!
I’m a subscriber to the ‘carfree network’ listserv. These folks are a little out there, even for this alternative mode activist. But every once in a while there’s a real gem, like this link to an article suggesting that last year more bikes than cars were sold in the U.S. The article attributes this to…