[Metro Councilor Rex Burkholder presents his resolution calling for more alternatives to be considered in the Columbia River Crossing process.]
Day: February 27, 2007
Ahearne will display diversity at builder’s show
[This is the third in a series of four interviews with local bike builders who are exhibiting at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show next weekend (March 2-4) in San Jose, California. Read previous interviews with Ira Ryan and Tony Pereira.]
[Joseph Ahearne in his shop.]
Joseph Ahearne of Ahearne Cycles has come a long way since his first trip to the Handmade Bicycle Show.
Back in 2005, without his own booth, he walked around the show with just a few parts strapped to his back.
Expect more enforcement near viaduct construction zone
If you ride on the Esplanade and the Springwater Corridor south of OMSI you know that there’s a ton of construction going.
In addition to the Big Pipe Project, ODOT is currently working on a $64 million project to replace the MLK/Grand Viaduct.
New web TV series based on Portland bike culture
Dan Kaufman of CrankMyChain Cycle TV tipped me off about a new web TV series based on Portland’s bike culture.
[The Bicyclist is a new web
TV series based on Portland’s bike culture.]
TV series based on Portland’s bike culture.]
Powerful misconceptions still drive the dialogue
Like any minority, as we work to move bicycles from an “alternative” mode of travel to a more widely used and mainstream transportation choice, we will be forced to defend deeply entrenched misconceptions and negative stereotypes.
Even in Portland, America’s most bike-friendly city, many folks still lump anyone who uses a bicycle into one big group of Critical Mass-loving, rampant law-breaking fanatics.