Portland's "whiteness" cited as reason for bike-friendliness
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009"...the City of Portland is 450,000 people. It’s a homogeneous community that is very white... We are a very diverse, disjointed city of 4 million people... So we’re a step behind Portland in what we’re trying to do."
-- Michelle Mowery, bicycle coordinator for the City of Los Angeles
We've discussed how race relates (or doesn't) to bicycling on several occasions in the past here on BikePortland, but a story out of Los Angeles takes the conversation in an entirely new direction.
According to "LA's hyper opinionated bicycle blog" Westside Bikeside, the bicycle coordinator for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation made some interesting comments at a City Council Transportation Committee meeting last week.
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