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Day: November 9, 2009

celeste Bianchi Reparto Corsa cyclocross 2001

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Year: 2001
Brand: Bianchi
Model: Reparto Corsa cyclocross
Color:celeste
Size:55cm
Serial: A90902505
Stolen in Portland, OR 97217
Stolen:2009-11-8
Stolen From: PIR cross crusade race
Between 5:00 and 5:30 pm
Owner: Doug Moak
OwnerEmail: damnyouwaltwhitman@hotmail.com
Description: celeste frame w/ prominent bianchi badging
Blue steel straight blade fork
Single speed drivetrain
Campagnolo record brake levers
tufo tubular tires
Police reference#: 09100804
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

blue secialized hardrock sport 2008

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Year: 2008
Brand: secialized
Model: hardrock sport
Color:blue
Size:white
Serial: P8DGK1791
Stolen in Ashland, OR 97520
Stolen:2009-11-7
Stolen From: was stolen from SOU campus. Both cable locks were cut and bike stolen
Neighborhood: SOU OREGON CAMPUS ASHLAND
Owner: Lisa THOMAS
OwnerEmail: mmcamaro@c-zone.net
Reward: 100.00
Description: it is a new/barely used bike. contact 530-241-3286, 971-678-4465
Police record with: REPORTED TO CAMPUS POLICE AND ASHLAND PD
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

BTA: Bike Master Plan “does not live up to Portland’s potential”

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“We ask that an immediate analysis, reevaluation and reallocation of transportation dollars spent by the City of Portland become an action item in this Plan.”
— The Bicycle Transportation Alliance, in a letter to PBOT

In their official comments on the Portland Bicycle Plan for 2030, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) says the City is not doing enough to realize bicycling’s potential. The BTA is also calling for several “near-term benchmarks” to keep the City on task before 2030.

In a letter to the Plan’s project manager Ellen Vanderslice, BTA Executive Director Scott Bricker and BTA Board Member Jim Middaugh write that in the fifteen years since the previous Bicycle Master Plan was adopted in 1996, the City “has not demonstrated a sufficient commitment to bicycling investments nor to making the fundamental shift required to make bicycling a realistic travel option for all.”

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Red/Black Redline Conquest Team Cyclocross 2009

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Year: 2009
Brand: Redline
Model: Conquest Team Cyclocross
Color:Red/Black
Size:56cm
Photo: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=3019909&id=550227202
Stolen in Portland, OR 97217
Stolen:2009-11-8
Stolen From: Portland International Raceway (PIR), on November 8th, 2009 during one of the Cross Crusade/SSCXWC cyclocross races.
Neighborhood: PIR
Owner: Scotty Carlile
OwnerEmail: ScottCarlile@gmail.com
Description: Redline Conquest Team Cyclocross bike with SRAM Force, Ritchey WCS Components, Edge clincher 38 wheelset with DT 240 hubs, Chris King headset, Selle Italia SLR saddle, and Shimano Dura-Ace Crankset.
Police record with: Don’t have one yet, they are backlogged with calls.
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Reader shares a new approach to crossing the Columbia

Tour of Tomorrow

A BikePortland reader has some ideas
of what can be done to improve the
I-5 crossing of the Columbia River.
(Photo © J. Maus)

Since a new era of planning for a new I-5 crossing of the Columbia River seems to be upon us, I thought I’d share a comment from last week that lays out several ways to move forward.

The comment was left by a reader named John Reinhold, who also happens to be a member of Metro’s Transportation Policy Alternatives Committee (TPAC). TPAC provides technical input to the Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation (JPACT) on “transportation planning and funding priorities for the Portland metropolitan region”. Read Reinhold’s ideas below:

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Mayor visits dangerous crosswalk; will recommend “immediate changes”

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A woman crossing SE Foster at 80th.
(Still taken from Oregonian video
— watch it below).

Responding to a week where several Portlanders were injured and one woman was killed while walking across SE Foster Blvd, Portland Mayor Sam Adams visited the site this morning. His visit comes on the eve of an awareness action by local safety advocates and on the same morning that national organization Transportation For America released a new report about pedestrian safety.

Adams said he walked several blocks around the intersection of Foster and 80th. After his walk Adams updated his Twitter account saying he would “recommend some immediate changes today.”

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The Monday Roundup

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Here’s the news that caught our eye this week:

– Warren Buffett has made his largest investment ever: $34 billion to purchase the BNSF rail company. He eloquently praises the promise of rail freight transportation, calls the move “a bet on the country.”

– An interesting article about how politically progressive inner cities are primarily white (which explicitly ties in bicycling with this dynamic) has drawn smart critics who look at the statistics and anecdotal evidence to show that bicycling is not a racially one-sided passion.

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