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A Sad Summer is a Call to Action
It’s been a sad summer in the bicycling community. A friend called me Monday night to report the fifth cyclist death in a Portland-area crash since the start of June. We must stop and mourn the deaths and honor the lives of our neighbors, our friends, and our family members. We also have to respond,…
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Updated: Downtown Carpool Moves to Flexcar
[Apparently my prior title for this post was too cynical :-)] I had actually suggested this idea to Commissioner Adams shortly after he was elected. I suspect that others inside PDOT smarter than me may have originated it independently, but I still feel a small glow of pride… Good for the City and good for…
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Our Streetscape Future: Turning Japanese?
The following is a dramatization of actual events. Actual dialog and concepts presented have been compressed and highlighted for loggification purposes: So I’m sitting there at the sushi bar with Portland’s Consul General from Japan, asking him for advice on my upcoming fellowship study (which isn’t easy to do in Japanese – especially as the…
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KBOO Bike Show: Safety and Bike Blogs
Listen to the show (mp3, 12.7M) Safety for cyclists Jonathan Maus from bikeportland.org, a popular Portland bike blog, talks about great bike blogs and other bike-related web sites.