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Day: April 19, 2007
Crash map compares safety of bicycle boulevards
A story I posted yesterday led to interesting comments about bicycle boulevards. We also looked at bike crash data with City traffic safety guru Greg Raisman.
Send Bikes to Rwanda via Vancouver
Bikes to Rwanda, a local effort to supply Rwandan coffee farmers with reliable cargo bikes, has announced “Africa in a Cup,” a benefit bike ride happening Saturday (4/21). Check out the flyer:
One year later, SK Northwest denied again
“A trail corridor must be provided to address transportation impacts.”
-Bureau of Development Services.
The Portland Bureau of Development Services has issued another denial for SK Northwest. It’s been one year since I first broke the story of the company’s plans to develop a facility along the Willamette River, just south of OMSI.
Study shows bicycles are huge boon to Oregon
The numbers confirm it.
File photo: 4/13/07
File photo: 4/13/07
State-by-state numbers of the Outdoor Industry of America’s landmark Active Recreation Economy Report have just been released and they show that bicycling plays a significant role in Oregon’s economy.
Here are the key, bicycle-related numbers for Oregon (all are annual):
Rails-to-Trails rallies Portland for new funding campaign
Laura Cohen of the Rails to
Trails Conservancy in
City Hall last week.
File photo: 4/12/07
Trails Conservancy in
City Hall last week.
File photo: 4/12/07
The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) stopped in Portland recently to meet with advocates and policy-makers to rally support for an ambitious congressional funding campaign.
As I reported a few weeks ago, the RTC hopes to secure $2 billion in the next Federal Transportation Bill to fund 40 communities to the tune of $50 million dollars each to “improve bicycle and pedestrian mode shift”.
The program would be an expansion of the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program which gave 4 cities $25 million each in the last transportation bill.
Vulnerable Roadway Users bill gets hearing Monday
The BTA’s “Vulnerable Roadway Users” bill (HB 3314 )will get a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee on Monday (4/23).
I spoke with Scott Bricker about the bill this morning before he left for another day working the halls of Salem.
According to Bricker, the bill targets vehicle operators that currently only have to pay a nominal fine if they hit and/or kill a vulnerable roadway user (which includes bicyclists, peds, and others) while driving carelessly,
PSU seminar to highlight first Platinum city
As part of their ongoing Transportation Seminar Series, PSU’s Center for Transportation Studies will host a seminar titled, Bicycling in Davis, California; A Critical Look at Policy and Behavior in the First Platinum Bicycle City in the U.S.
The presentation will be given by Susan Handy, an environmental planning professor at UC Davis.
Davis achieved Platinum status from the League of American Bicyclists back in September of 2005, but the city is experiencing some growing pains.