Month: January 2008

Portland schools win Safe Routes grant from ODOT

The family on a Dutch city bike

Mini-vans are sooo last year.
(Photo © Jonathan Maus)

Eleven Portland-area elementary schools have received grants from the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) to improve and sustain their Safe Routes to Schools programs.

The schools (see list below) have received a total of nearly $600,000 from the federally funded program that works to make it easier and safer for kids to walk and bike to school.

The grant consists of two separate awards; a $100,000 non-infrastructure grant that will go toward hiring “site organizers”, and $500,000 for capital improvements (these might include improved sidewalks, pedestrian refuge islands, bike parking, etc…).

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Oregon Scenic Bikeways Public Hearing

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Location: Multnomah County Library; 801 SW 10th Ave.; Portland, OR

Hearing Officer: Iris Riggs

Summary: This rule will establish criteria and a procedure for the establishment of Oregon Scenic Bikeways. The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department will coordinate the process, hold public hearings and facilitate signing of the Scenic Bikeways.

Stolen Atala 1967 Gran Prix

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Very old 1960ish Atala Gran Prix road bike. White with chrome lugs. Bullhorn style handlebars and a newly replaced shimano 515 derailer, other parts are campiliagno (dowtube shifters). Brakes are very old (Weinmann 999).

PICTURE IS OF FRAME ONLY FOR REFERENCE, NOT ACTUAL PICTURE

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Stolen Miyata Unknown

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Sweet commuter stolen from my doorstep. Ugly paint job covered up by electrical tape, sawed off/flipped handlebars with gray tape, Shimano component group, with black grey tires and new wheels.

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Portland’s $125 million dollar wish list

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City of Portland bike coordinator Roger Geller and Alta Planning’s Mia Birk (the dynamic duo working on our city’s Platinum Bicycle Master Plan) recently gave a presentation at a Women’s Transportation Seminar luncheon titled, The Leading Edge of Bicycle Transportation Policy and Practice.

I missed the luncheon, but in perusing the PDF of the presentation (it’s available at the bottom of this page), I found an interesting slide.

It’s a list of what Geller and Birk would do with $125 million…

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DA: No criminal negligence in Jarolimek case

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Deputy DA Chuck Sparks speaking
with a reporter at the
Courthouse this morning.
(Photo © Jonathan Maus)

This morning, Multnomah County Senior Deputy District Attorney Chuck Sparks (in photo) released his report on the case of Brett Jarolimek, who died on October 22 after colliding with a garbage truck on Interstate and Greeley.

After an in-depth investigation that included several trips to the scene, video footage from the top of the hill, and multiple interviews with the truck’s passenger and with witnesses who saw the entire collision take place, Sparks’ has determined that the garbage truck driver, Bryan Lowes, did not, “show conduct rising to the level of criminal negligence”.

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Stolen TREK 830

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Red mountain bike TREK 830 with Planet Bike fenders front and back, tamper proof axle bolt replacements for front and back, tag-a-long hitch mounted on seat post, small black and white “City of Iowa City” bike license on rear fork of frame above the brake mounts

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Stolen schwinn world

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my huge white single speed schwinn was stolen last week it has bullhorn bars and lots of stikers Im sure its already been sold for scrap and will wind up as rebar in china

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