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Open Thread for the Week of 9/9/13
Our second week on the new platform! Have at it…
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A Wealth of Bike Share Technologies
Portland is awash with bike share technology. Headliner Alta Bike Share is getting ready to deploy the same dock-based technology they’ve used in DC, Boston, NY and Chicago. But there’s more action than that. Local advocate extraordinaire Kiel Johnson has designed a system for apartment complexes and out at Intel there is an open source…
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KBOO Bike Show: Open Streets Movement
Listen to the show (mp3, 27.1MB) Steph and guest host Mychal Tetteh talk about the open streets movement (events like Sunday Parkways) world wide. They discuss LA’s CycLAvia with Dr. Adonia Lugo and talk with a number of organizers and participants in Portland’s Sunday Parkways.
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“Going Dutch:” What Portland Can Learn from the World’s Cycling Capitol
It’s been something of a trend lately for Portland bike enthusiasts to travel to the Mecca of bicycling—the Netherlands—and come back full of energy and ideas for improving the bikeability and livability of our city. For the past three summers, Portland State University’s civil engineering program has offered a class exploring the Dutch civil infrastructure,…
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Image is (Not) Nothing
Note: Rebecca, the second of our new contributors, is in Beijing this summer on an internship with the Chinese Academy of Urban Planning and Design. If you look at any brochure, map, or cycling resource guide published by Portland transportation or advocacy organizations, you are likely to be underwhelmed at the images of cyclists they…