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TriMet bus driver gets candid about stress, cyclists

Buffered Bike Lane with a bike symbol and arrow pointing forward
bikes and buses

Buses and bicycles are both forms of “alternative” transportation, but that’s about the extent of what we have in common. There is an uneasy truce between us on the streets and our tenuous relationship tends to ebb and flow between cooperation and complaints.

The size difference of our vehicles combined with the need for us to share the same space on the road, is a recipe for frustration and stress on both sides.

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Portland’s “Platinum” Bicycle Master Plan gets rolling

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Bicycle Master Plan meeting

Portland bike insiders are wondering how we can go beyond the confines of U.S. standards for bike-friendliness and begin to adopt infrastructure and policies already in use in places like Amsterdam and Copenhagen.

But before Portland can become a world-class bicycling city, we must first have a plan to get there.

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Burkholder will talk bikes in Mexico visit

Three Bridges dedication ceremony

Rex Burkholder at the
Three Bridges dedication.
File photo: 10/19/06

Metro Councilor and BTA co-founder Rex Burkholder will share his perspectives on Portland’s transportation network in Guadalajara, Mexico later this month.

He’s been invited by the Bogota, Columbia-based, Ciudad Humana Foundation to give a talk at the second meeting of the Ciclovias Unidas de las Americas, a coalition of eight countries in Central and South America whose mission is to promote better health in cities throughout Latin America by encouraging bicycling, including building ciclovias (the spanish word for bikeways).

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