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Day: May 12, 2008

CRC Update: Public comments needed, hearing tomorrow, CLF steps up

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The CLF wants you to think about
a Climate Smart CRC.

There’s a lot going on with the Columbia River Crossing project.

The much-anticipated Draft Environmental Impact Statement has been released and we are now in a 60-day public comment period (that ends July 1st).

Comments on the DEIS will help regional decision makers choose which alternatives move into the next phases of the project. Two informational open houses where you can comment (either in person or in writing) have been scheduled for May 28th and 29th.

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Family Bike Commuting Workshop

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— Location: Clever Cycles Bike Shop, 908 SE Hawthorne Blvd —

The BTA has an exciting new workshop on family bike commuting and it’s happening tonight in inner SE and on Thursday downtown. If you’re an experienced bike commuter, come learn about commuting with little ones. If you know or are a new or bikecurious folk, please stop by!

Here’s the details:

Getting Started in Family Bike Commuting

Nervous about mounting a bicycle with little ones? Confused by all the options for carrying kids on bicycles?
The BTA’s Family Biking Commute Workshops discuss the common challenges that families face when considering bike commuting. They are also a place for seasoned bicyclists to learn more about commuting with kids and share what they know about commuting with new riders.

Topics covered include:

* Building confidence as a bike commuter
* Safe and legal riding
* What you need to know about different kid-carrying bicycles
* Carrying stuff other than kids
* Time management
* What to do about rain
* Route planning and maps

The informative presentations are followed by time for questions and discussion. All workshop participants will receive free maps and lists of resources. Presenters also spend time offering route-planning assistance on a one-on-one basis after the presentation. Workshops are led by BTA staff members.

ZooBama and a bike ride in Bend?

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Over the weekend, Seattle P-I columnist Joel Connelly traveled to Bend (175 miles SE of Portland) to cover Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign visit.

In a column he published this morning, Connelly wrote:

Sen. Barack Obama talked wistfully about taking a bicycle ride in the high Oregon desert, but plunged back into what is both a victory lap in the Democratic race and the warmup for a long general election campaign.

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Gentrification, labels and the “privilege” of bike commuting

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A guy on a bike — not a “self-serving”,
“agenda driven”, “bike commuter”.
(Photo © J. Maus)

A Portland blog that covers “gentrification and other problems” has published an article about “bike commuters” that I found interesting and wanted to share.

It also brought up some thoughts of mine on how people tend to lump “bike commuters” into one big, happy group.

In Seeing The Sky; And, The Privilege Of Bike Commuting, the blog’s author shares the “unfortunate truth” that bike commuting is “a privilege, mostly denied to the middle working class (my error)” (emphasis mine):

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