Author profile: Marcus Griffith (Contributor)

Here are the other 20 articles by Marcus Griffith (Contributor):

• Clark County bike/walk plan earns national award for fighting obesity (December 5, 2011)
  

  Cover of the plan.

  While Vancouver isn’t the same cycling utopia as Portland; bit by bit, the area is striving to embrace two-wheeled transportation. Those efforts just got a head nod from the Active Living Research (ALR), an organization that promotes walking and biking as means to fight childhood obesity.
  In a press release, Clark County Public [...]

• Woman hit, killed by bus while walking across street in downtown Vancouver (December 2, 2011)
  

  Photo from the scene.(Photo: Marcus Griffith)

  An "elderly woman" was struck and killed by a C-TRAN bus today while walking across the street in downtown Vancouver. The collision occurred a few blocks from the bike route across the I-5 Bridge, according to witnesses.
  The Route 4 bus was in the process of turning left from 8th Street [...]

• Portland "Bicyclist with a capital B" leads Vancouver Bike Club (November 29, 2011)
  

  Maria Schur(Self portrait)

  In many ways, Portland resident Maria Schur epitomizes the die-hard Portland bike lover. She averages 120 miles a week in the saddle, commutes by bike to her job at BikeTiresDirect, spent two years as a bike messenger in San Francisco, participated in the first ever Critical Mass ride in 1992, operates a bike-centric [...]

• Alta project will promote biking, walking in downtown Vancouver (November 23, 2011)
  

  Vancouver hopes to see more of this downtown.(Photo © J. Maus)

  The City of Vancouver has awarded a $70,000 contract to Alta Planning and Design to promote biking, walking, ride-sharing and transit into downtown Vancouver. The project is set to officially roll out in January.
  According to Vancouver Senior Planner Jennifer Campos, the purpose of the [...]

• In Vancouver, Mia Birk rallies members of local bike club (November 14, 2011)
  

  Mia Birk(Photo © J. Maus)

  Author and CEO Mia Birk presented her book, Joy Ride, to the Vancouver Bicycle Club (VBC) on Wednesday at the new downtown Vancouver library.
  Introduced by Portland’s own Joe “Metal Cowboy” Kurmaskie, Birk informed the crowd of about 60 VBC members that Portland’s famous bicycling atmosphere didn't happen overnight.
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• Vancouver gets its first artistic bike rack (November 10, 2011)
  

  Vancouver's first ever art racks.(Photos: Marcus Griffith)

  In the latest act of Portland's bike love spreading to Vancouver, a Portland resident is opening Clark County’s first fully dedicated climbing center in downtown Vancouver, complete with Vancouver’s first artistic bicycle rack (a.k.a. "art racks").
  The Source is co-owned by Portland resident Hanz Kroesen and former Portland resident [...]

• When it comes to helmet laws, language matters (October 24, 2011)
  

  Mandatory helmet laws say the little guy should wear one.(Photos © J. Maus)

  After reading about the helmet survey launched by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance last week, I wanted to share a cautionary tale about helmet laws. I live in Vancouver, Washington where we've been living with a mandatory, all-ages helmet law since 2008.
  If you're [...]

• Vancouver job fair turns I-5 bridge access into a parking lot (September 29, 2011)
  

  As if the I-5 Bridge needed any more safety issues, yesterday’s job fair hosted by Washington Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler at the Red Lion Hotel turned the biking and walking bridge crossing route into a parking lot...

  View of biking and walking path to I-5 bridge.(Photo: Marcus Griffith)

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• Another unauthorized road sign; this time in Vancouver (September 19, 2011)
  

  This sign was posted on NW Lower River Road in Vancouver. It has since been removed.(Photos: Marcus Griffith)

  For the third time this month, an unauthorized road sign has been discovered in the greater Portland metro area; and the trend has now hopped across the Columbia River into Vancouver.
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• New bike advocacy group for Clark County nears non-profit status (June 10, 2011)
  

  Clark County Cycling Coalition founder Eric Giacchino.(Photo: Marcus Griffith)

  The greater Portland metropolitan area is one step closer to having another regional non-profit bike education and advocacy organization.
  The necessary paperwork to receive official non-profit status for the Clark County Cycling Coalition (C-4), southwest Washington’s newest bike organization, is complete and ready to be mailed, according to [...]

• Infamous blind curve on I-5 Bridge poses safety hazard (June 2, 2011)
  

  Where the I-5 bridge path ends.(Photos: Marcus Griffith)

  Despite the City of Vancouver’s efforts to redesign an adjacent parking lot in 2009, the blind corner at the northeast end of the I-5 Bridge continues to have frequent collisions between people bicycling and illegally parked cars.
  The parking lot where the bridge path comes out belongs to Clark [...]

• Heading to the 'Couve? Don't forget your helmet (May 25, 2011)
  

  Heading to the 'Couve? Remember your helmet.(Photos © J. Maus)

  Back in 2008, Vancouver (WA) passed an all-ages, mandatory helmet law. While enforcement has been nearly nonexistent since then, the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) says that's about to change.
  Hoping to increase compliance with the law, VPD spokesperson Kim Kapp tells us new police patrols, will [...]

• Hayden Island incident highlights confusing path access issues (April 20, 2011)
  

  It can be hard to know whether or not the public has the legal right to ride a bike on paths like this one on Hayden Island.(Photos: Marcus Griffith)

  The sometimes complicated rules that govern public use of private pathways is at the heart of a recent incident between a group of people cycling and a [...]

• Biking, walking, and NHTSA's latest Traffic Safety Facts data (January 24, 2011)
  

  With Oregon lawmakers set to get down to business in the coming weeks, it's a good time to prepare for the upcoming debates by brushing up on the latest traffic safety data.
  The early edition of the 2009 Traffic Safety Facts is a 232 page compilation of national traffic collision data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting [...]

• Washington's proposed safe passing law; and how it differs from ours (January 7, 2011)
  

  This year, Washington State lawmakers will consider a new safe passing law. The bill, House Bill 1018 (PDF), is just one part of what's been dubbed as the "Mutual Responsibility Bill." It appears to have support from both sides of the aisle (in total, eight democrats and three republicans support it) and seems to [...]

• Do all-ages helmet laws work? An update from Vancouver, WA (November 24, 2010)
  

  What happens in places that have a mandatory, all-ages helmet law on the books? Do injury rates decline? Does bike ridership go down? That's the conventional wisdom; but is it true? Nearly three years after passing such an ordinance, the effect of Vancouver’s helmet law is difficult to ascertain. Our [...]

• Vancouver gets two more on-street bike corrals, but businesses thwart a third (August 12, 2010)
  

  New bike parking across from Esther Short Park.(Photos by Marcus Griffith

  Earlier this week, the City of Vancouver installed two more on-street bike parking corrals, raising the city's total to three. The new racks were installed Tuesday morning at Esther Short Park and on the corner of Broadway and McLoughlin Blvd in downtown Vancouver.
  As reported [...]

• Vancouver City Council passes TIP without Bike Program (June 22, 2010)
  

  Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt.(File photo/2008 © J. Maus)

  Despite pressure from citizens, business owners (including the CEO of Burgerville), and advocacy groups from around the region and the country, last night the Vancouver City Council voted unanimously to pass their six-year Transportation Improvement Program plan with no dedicated funding for the Bike Program.
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• Filmmaker visits Portland and Vancouver to document ghost bikes (June 14, 2010)
  

  Filmmaker Meaghan Wilbur(Photo: Marcus Griffith)

  New York City independent film maker and bike enthusiast Meaghan Wilbur is in Portland and Vancouver this week filming interviews for her ghost bike documentary, a project she says is about "exploring the intersection of street art, activism, and mourning on the streets of cities around the world."
  In an interview [...]

• Vancouver council hears concerns over bike program cut (June 8, 2010)
  

  Gerik Kransky (BTA) and Leah Jackson (Bike Me! Vancouver) at last night's council meeting.(Photo: Marcus Griffith)

  Vancouver City Council heard testimony regarding the proposed elimination of Vancouver’s Bike Program from more than twenty bike advocates from both sides of the river during last night's city council meeting.
  Although, the full public hearing and final vote on [...]