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My Commute: Michelle
I moved to Portland nearly two years ago. The trip across country took our trusty van as a sacrifice for making the distance in Missoula, so my ex and I arrived without motor powered wheels. Since I wasn’t willing to drive the beast we named Bert, this was not a concern. Especially given the fact…
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Welcoming Visitors to Hollywood – By Any Mode
Guest contributor Patrick Donaldson is a member of the Hollywood Boosters. As one of Portland’s oldest organized business districts the Hollywood District continues to identify new methods of attracting and keeping customers for the various goods and services available in our Northeast Portland community. During the expansion of bicycle lanes throughout the city it became…
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Wanted: An Outbreak of Civility
Back in March I almost became a pedestrian statistic when I chose to tangle with an impatient motorist and learned the hard way you can’t stop a car with your bare hands. The encounter catapulted me into the street on the back of my head, landed me in the E.R., and threw my autonomic nervous…
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Updated: OTC/LCDC move away from State Planning Goals, towards building roads in response to development
Update: 1000 Friends has put their official comments to the workgroup (PDF, 245K) online. A primary purpose of the Transportation Planning Rule (TPR), which implements Statewide Planning Goal 12 (Transportation), is to assure that land uses and transportation systems are planned together “to reduce reliance on the automobile so that the air pollution, traffic and…
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A Variation on Yellow Bikes?
Editor’s note: Jerry passes on this link to a bike rental program in France: Rentabike moves up a gear from curiosity to runaway success Could this be made to work in Portland? Is there a market for bicycle rentals if access is made convenient enough?