Day: November 27, 2006
Update on enforcement statistics and perception
My Perceptions of enforcement post last week spurred some interesting discussion. Curious about how the perception of my readers differed from the reality of statistics, I asked for people to guess how many tickets were written to bicyclists last month.
Of the 74 comments the average guess was around 60.
As promised, here are the official October stats from the Traffic Division of the Police Bureau:
BikeCraft shapes up
BikeCraft II is shaping up nicely. I’ve just finished the event flyer (see below) and so far there are 15 confirmed vendors!
One of them is Elias Grey. He moved to Southeast Portland less than a year ago and he makes messenger bags under the name Lemolo Bags. He’s just getting his business off the ground so he’s excited to share his creations with us.
I just hope he brings a lot of them, I think they’ll be very popular.
Host and server transfer update
I’ve now transferred this site over to a new host and server.
The main site seems to be working fine, but there’s a major problem with the Forums and for some reason my event listings are not displaying properly. *Fixed them!
The site also seems a bit slow.
I am working on all of these issues and should have them resolved soon. Thanks for your patience.
I can’t wait to just focus on content and put all this tech stuff behind me!
Bike lights program makes its way to Missoula
Starting today, Police officers in Missoula Montana will give away a free set of bike lights to cyclists stopped for not having them.
Sound familiar? It should. The program takes a page out of a similar program by the Portland Police Bureau that began over a year ago.
NY Times says bikes bring hipsters to Portland
A reader just pointed out to that the New York Times has mentioned Portland’s bike scene yet again in their Saturday edition.
The first time is was all about our “cult-like” allegiance to cyclocross racing and now they cite a new report from Atlanta that says our “pedestrian and biker friendly” city is the main reason for our top-five standing in the “battle” to attract “rare and desirable” 25-34 year olds to our city.