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PDOT is looking for a few good volunteers to help them with a very important project. They need your help to count bicyclists at various locations throughout the city.
Last summer, over 50 volunteers helped with the count and the result was a 21-page report (view results and download here) that according to city bike coordinator Roger Geller is “invaluable information for the city”.
@ Metro Regional Center council chamber : 600 NE Grand Ave., Portland
Public hearing: Lake Oswego to Portland Transit and Trail Alternatives Analysis
The cities of Lake Oswego and Portland, Clackamas and Multnomah counties, TriMet, Oregon Department of Transportation and Metro have coordinated to study options to provide transit, bike and pedestrian connections between Lake Oswego and Portland. The process is guided by a steering committee co-chaired by Metro Councilors Rex Burkholder and Brian Newman and made up of elected officials from each of the partner agencies. The project is expected to result in a recommendation from the Metro Council on which options to move forward into an environmental analysis.
Prior to that, and after a public open house, the citizen-based project advisory committee and the technical advisory committee will make a locally preferred alternative recommendation to the steering committee. The steering committee will review these two recommendations, take public comment at this hearing and make a recommendation to project partners. Local jurisdictions will be asked to adopt a resolution in support of the locally preferred alternative recommendation. The Metro Council will consider all public comments and resolutions from local governments before adopting a preferred alternative.
Metro Regional Center
council chamber
600 NE Grand Ave., Portland
Directions: Located in the Lloyd District three blocks south of the TriMet MAX Northeast Holladay Street light-rail line. One block east of the Oregon Convention Center.
Wheelchair accessible.
Sign language interpretation is available by arrangement.
For more information, call Transportation Planning at (503) 797-1757, fax (503) 797-1930 or send e-mail to trans@metro-region.org.
Sponsored by Metro and partners.
men’s bike, at lease 15 years old. planet earth bike rack with white crate attached, toe clips
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Over the weekend, the discussion over enforcement against bicycles in North Plains continued both in the comments of my post from Friday and on the OBRA email list.
Among the reactions was a comment by North Plains Police Chief Scott Whitehead. Whitehead wrote in to clarify his position on the situation:
“It seems that several people have taken my comments out of context…Our efforts to step up enforcement at stop signs has been focused towards everyone…
I just returned from a much-needed mini-vacation to the coast (Fort Stevens to be exact, more photos and story later).
Looks like there was tons of bike action while I was gone.
Big crowds and large fields were reported at the Alpenrose Velodrome Challenge track race. Here’s a recap of Day 1 and the Oregonian has a story in their Sports section today on one of the racers, Jenn Wangerin.
steel frame; drop handle bars; luggage rack; there is a mount for a planet bike headlight. there was a strap on the left pedal but the right pedal was strapless.
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Come support the Community Cycling Center with a bike ride event you will never forget. The Hottest Day of the Year Ride, on Sunday, August 5th, is a fun bike ride that begins in NW and covers two courses, a family-friendly 15-mile ride and a 40-miler for more experienced riders. The finish line rewards riders with a cool make-your-own sundae bar and a gigantic good-natured water fight that will attempt to make the world record for largest water fight ever recorded.
@ Lucky Lab Brew Pub (Northwest Portland location, NW Quimby & 19th)
We need over 120 volunteers to make this ride a success for the 1500 participants. Volunteer positions include: registration, rest stop, course marking, lunchtime duties, bike parking, and MANY MORE! Many of the volunteer positions will allow you to ride the event for free.
**NOT EVERY VOLUNTEER POSITION GETS TO RIDE THE EVENT. Please see the website for details
To Volunteer: Go to http://www.hottestdayride.com/volunteer.html
Review the volunteer position information and then click the Red “Register Now” button.
To Register for the Ride: http://www.hottestdayride.com
The Community Cycling Center, founded in 1994, helps build skills and foster personal development of youth and adults through community-oriented educational and recreational bicycle programs and services.
We refurbish donated bicycles and redirect them for use in programs and our neighborhood bike shop.
Please visit us at www.CommunityCyclingCenter.org
@ Pioneer Courthouse Square – Downtown Portland
Portland’s second annual Low-Car Diet begins July 9 and will continue through August 6. During this time 30 Portland residents have agreed to ‘trim the automobile waistband’ and hand over the keys to their own car for the entire month. For many participants, the Low-Car Diet Challenge is a fun way to test out whether permanently reducing personal car use is a viable option for them in the Portland area.
To make the Challenge fun and a bit easier, the participants will be given a monthly transit pass, a Flexcar membership and a $200 driving credit, a $50 gift certificate to Bike Gallery, free grocery delivery service from New Season’s Market, a Chinook Book, and for those that go the whole month, a round trip ticket on Amtrack Cascades anywhere between Eugene to Seattle .
The bike is a silver Trek 7300 FX (2005) – looks almost identical to the 7300FX posted four days ago, and oddly enough stolen just a block away.
At the time it was stolen, there was a holder for a Trek Kryptonite lock attached to the frame and a light attached to the handlebars secured using two red plastic cable ties. Under the seat, there is also a tiny blue light encased in green plastic.
There is/was also a purple sticker near the front of the frame with a registration number from Indiana University; I believe it begins with BK, though I’ll update this when I have more info.
If you find it, you rock my world.
Cheers!
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small road bike with custom 16 spoke wheels. seat is almost all the way lowered to the frame.
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Todd Danger’s fancy Vanilla track bike disguised as a messenger bike. Gloss black decals over flat black paint. Silver “V” head badge. S-bend seatstays. Oversized Deda pista bars, cloth tape. Carbon FSA cranks that creak loudly, clips and straps, ripped flite saddle, crappy wheelset, Surly front, Miche back. Please help bring her home!
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Red Mountian bike with new black fenders. Black handlebars and black seat.
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