Transportaton Funding Town Hall (Central NE/E)

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Central Northeast & East Portland

Firehouse #12
4415 NE 87th Avenue


You are invited to participate in a neighborhood town hall meeting about transportation priorities and funding options.

Our transportation system is in trouble.

• 3941 miles of Portland streets, 32% of arterials in poor condition*
• 157bridges, 22% in poor condition*
• 992 traffic signals, 43% in poor condition*
• Each year of deferred maintenance adds an estimated $9 Million to future maintenance costs.

With your help we can reverse the decline of Portland’s basic transportation system, saving taxpayer millions of dollar and saving lives.

Transportaton Funding Town Hall (NW)

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Northwest Portland

Friendly House Conference Room
1737 NW 26th Avenue


You are invited to participate in a neighborhood town hall meeting about transportation priorities and funding options.

Our transportation system is in trouble.

• 3941 miles of Portland streets, 32% of arterials in poor condition*
• 157bridges, 22% in poor condition*
• 992 traffic signals, 43% in poor condition*
• Each year of deferred maintenance adds an estimated $9 Million to future maintenance costs.

With your help we can reverse the decline of Portland’s basic transportation system, saving taxpayer millions of dollar and saving lives.

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Transportaton Funding Town Hall (N/NE)

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North & Northeast Portland
King Neighborhood Facility
4815 NE 7th Avenue


You are invited to participate in a neighborhood town hall meeting about transportation priorities and funding options.

Our transportation system is in trouble.

• 3941 miles of Portland streets, 32% of arterials in poor condition*
• 157bridges, 22% in poor condition*
• 992 traffic signals, 43% in poor condition*
• Each year of deferred maintenance adds an estimated $9 Million to future maintenance costs.

With your help we can reverse the decline of Portland’s basic transportation system, saving taxpayer millions of dollar and saving lives.

More info

Urgent: Volunteers needed for Multnomah County Bike Fair

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Mult. County Bike Fair!

Volunteers will get lots of love!
(File photo)

This year’s Multnomah County Bike Fair (this Saturday, 6/23) will surely be the biggest and baddest bike event of the year. Where else can you celebrate an epic Pedalpalooza, watch unicycle jousting (and other awesome competitions), marvel at bike dance troupes, buy bikey arts and crafts, marry your bike, meet lots of great folks, and much more?

Well all that fun takes volunteers to pull off.

The word on the street is that the MCBF crew could use a few extra hands. Here are all the details from volunteer coordinator VJ Beauchamp:

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Bike-conscious Portlanders needed at transportation funding town hall meetings

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Like I mentioned last week, Commissioner of Transportation Sam Adams is embarking on major quest to fix Portland’s ailing transportation system.

A key part of his plan is a series of neighborhood town hall meetings being held to allow you to “join the conversation about transportation funding…and be part of the solution”.

Adams is about to decide on new local transportation funding options (mostly to pay for a maintenance backlog) and he needs to hear what the community priorities are.

With talks of a possible new tax, Adams’ initiative is drawing out every anti-bike person in the Portland Metro area. That’s why it’s imperative that bicycle-conscious people show up to these meetings and bring some balance to the discussion.

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Part Time Mechanic & Instructor, PSU Bike Co-op – FILLED

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This position has been filled.

Job Title – Part Time Mechanic & Instructor
Company/OrganizationPSU Bicycle Cooperative

Job Description
The PSU Bicycle Cooperative is an on-campus bicycle repair shop servicing the PSU Community. Our focus is to teach basic bicycle repair and maintenance techniques that will help keep our students, faculty and staff on the road. Additionally, it is our goal to supply PSU cyclists with affordable, quality, replacement parts and merchandise. We are dedicated to increasing the number of cyclists at PSU, empowering all cyclists with the ability to understand and repair their own bicycle, and promoting the bicycle both as recreation and as an efficient mode of transportation.

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Policymakers go off-road in Forest Park

PUMP's Forest Park mountain bike tour

Chris Distefano and Tom Miller chat
while riding in Forest Park last night.
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Gallery – slideshow below

Last night the Portland United Mountain Pedalers (PUMP) led a group of city staffers on a mountain bike ride through Forest Park. The ride was organized to give key decision makers and city planners an up-close and personal experience of urban mountain biking.

During the ride, PUMP members explained sustainable trail building methods, shared their thoughts on the importance of mountain biking to Portland’s Platinum effort, and continued to make their case for adding more singletrack trails in Forest Park.

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Old shop gets new life on NW 21st Avenue

21st avenue bicycles

Employee Peter Drake
(File photo)

The storefront on NW 21st Avenue that had been occupied by Northwest Bicycles for 32 years has re-opened after a complete renovation.

The new shop is 21st Avenue Bicycles and about the only thing that remains of the old shop are veteran employees Jose Cano and Hugh Nixon.

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Governor’s desk is next stop for Vulnerable Roadway User bill

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My day in Salem

Scott Bricker of the BTA at
the State Capitol in Salem.
(Photo © J. Maus)

Finally.

BTA lobbyist Scott Bricker — who worked tirelessly in Salem to garner support for this bill — shares the news that the Vulnerable Roadway User bill (HB 3314) got through its final hurdle this morning by passing a House concurrence vote 40-9.

Now, when someone operates a vehicle in a careless manner and seriously injures or kills a vulnerable roadway user, they’ll be subject to:

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Cops out in force in OMSI construction zone

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Looking north on SE 4th Ave.
(File photo)

Back in February, I shared the word from the Portland Police Bureau Traffic Division that the OMSI construction area would be an “enhanced enforcement zone” (see map below).

Now, given the amount of emails and phone calls I’ve received in recent days, it seems like they’ve significantly ratcheted up their efforts to cite bicyclists in this area.

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