Hot off the presses, here’s the City of Portland’s official Bike to Work Day flyer…
City gears up for Bike to Work Day
Month: April 2007
BTA in City Hall, reports record-setting response
Michelle Poyourow and Scott Bricker of the BTA have spent most of the day in City Hall, working to find a solution to get our Bicycle Master Plan Update process back into the budget.
Michelle just updated their blog and reported that the Mayor’s office received a record amount of 300 unique phone calls and emails about this issue.
Update on City Hall’s response to funding cut
File photo: 4/7/06
Responses from City Commissioners on the Mayor’s decision to not fund the Bicycle Master Plan Update process are trickling in.
Commissioner Randy Leonard says,
“I will do what I can to get the Bike Master Plan funding back in the budget…thanks for writing me.”
Matthew Grumm from Commissioner Dan Saltzman’s office says,
Stolen Gary Fisher 2001 Paragon
2001 Gary Fisher Paragon hardtail with v-brakes. Rear Rack with black Planet Bike Freddy Fender on the rear covering 2.1 Specialized Crosstrail tire mounted on a Sun Rhyno Lite rim. Fork has a Shock Blade fender over a Specialized 1.5 Nimbus armadillo tire mounted on the stock Bontrager wheelset. Silver Race Face Cranks. Seatstays and chainstays are red and top tude and down tube are red changing to white and black at the headtube. Black Manitou fork with decals removed. Well used with usual dents, dings, scuffs and grimes.
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Stolen Gary Fisher 2001 Paragon
2001 Gary Fisher Paragon hardtail with v-brakes. Rear Rack with black Planet Bike Freddy Fender on the rear covering 2.1 Specialized Crosstrail tire mounted on a Sun Rhyno Lite rim. Fork has a Shock Blade fender over a Specialized 1.5 Nimbus armadillo tire mounted on the stock Bontrager wheelset. Silver Race Face Cranks. Seatstays and chainstays are red and top tude and down tube are red changing to white and black at the headtube. Black Manitou fork with decals removed. Well used with usual dents, dings, scuffs and grimes.
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Police spent $20,000 on Critical Mass in ’06
File photo: 8/26/05
The Portland Police Bureau released their Annual Traffic Activity Summary yesterday. The report details all the traffic violations and expenditures for 2006.
Among the stats was a page devoted to “Non-permitted Protest, Demonstration, Critical Mass”. It’s important to note not only how they categorize their presence at Critical Mass, but the amount of officers and cost to the city.
River City Bicycles gets Greenie Award
Bicycle Retailer and Industry News (BRAIN) reports that local retailer River City Bicycles has won the first-ever Greenie Award. The award was created by Specialized Bicycles as a way to, “acknowledge its retailers’ green-minded efforts and to motivate the public to reduce its global footprint.”
According to the story in BRAIN, River City won the award because of their,
“eco-conscious campaign to promote bicycling as a solution to climate change.”
Stolen Gary Fishcer Zubrano
Women’s style bike with mirror on left handlebar, a blue and pink shark horn on the handlebars, red handle grips on end of handlebars, a chariot trailer hitch on rear axle. Stolen from PCC cascade campus
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Stolen Marin Mountain Bike
Silver Marin Mountain Bike, Cross terrane Tires one with a slime tube in the tire with bright green valve cap. Schimano components, 21 speed, soft tail Seet, black bike rack on back, black bell onn handelbars, possibly still has decals on it from the bike rental place in San Francisco that I bought it from 415 area code.
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Did the Mayor make an innocent mistake?
To Portland’s bike insiders, savvy advocates, BTA members, and regular readers of this site, the Bicycle Master Plan Update process is nothing new. We’ve been getting excited about it for months. There have been brown bag discussions, monthly rides, steering committee meetings, a lot of coverage on this site, and so on.
But the same might not be true of the Mayor’s office.