In case you missed the announcement, I’ve now got a Job Listings service. These listings are a great way to find the perfect job, or to find the perfect employee.
They won’t always be bike-related, but they’ll always be from bike-friendly organizations.
Believe it or not, despite our reputation for bikes and our general love of outdoor sports, Portland has never had a major downtown triathlon.
That is, until now.
Last night at my neighborhood meeting I heard two strange presentations. They both had to do with billion dollar mega-projects that are intended to increase capacity on Interstate 5 and thereby decrease congestion.
As I listened I couldn’t help but feel like I was in some sort of surreal nightmare.
I thought everyone knew that increasing highway capacity only encourages more use of motor vehicles while doing nothing to get to the root cause of the problems.
I thought we’d evolved beyond thinking we can build our way out of our addiction to oil and automobiles. I thought widening freeways and bridges was something planners looked back on in textbooks as what not to do.
“Can we create–even if only for a little while and in a limited area–the feeling one gets when riding in world class cycling cities?”
-PDOT’s Roger Geller
In case you haven’t heard the buzz, PDOT is in the midst of updating their Bicycle Master Plan (the current one is over 10 years old).
The Bicycle Master Plan is the key document for all bike-related infrastructure and usage decisions in Portland, and with only one update each decade, it’s imperative that we make it as good as it possibly can be.
To that end, PDOT bike czar Roger Geller has just announced a series of monthly “Bicycle Master Plan Rides”.
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half moon handle bars
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As part of the East Side Big Pipe construction project, the Bureau of Environmental Services will fund $2 million worth of projects to, “neighborhoods and business districts affected by combined sewer overflow construction”. They call it their Community Benefits Opportunity Program.
Anyone can apply for this money (projects will be selected in October 2007) and they’re funding things like tree plantings, traffic calming measures, trails, and facilities that promote pedestrian and bicycle use.
Emily Gardner‘s new hairdo shows that she’s always got bikes on her mind, literally.
When the BTA Policy Advocate recently dyed her hair she decided to go with something that pays homage to bike-related road markings.