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Year: 2013

Dark Green Specialized Tri-Cross Sport 2007

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Year: 2007
Brand: Specialized
Model: Tri-Cross Sport
Color:Dark Green
Serial:U20082
Stolen in Portland, OR 97266
Stolen:2013-04-29
Stolen From: Bike rack outside Powell’s Bookstore, downtown Portland, corner of NW Couch and 11th Ave. at approx. 10:00pm 4-29-13.
Neighborhood: Downtown
Owner: Jered Prostrollo
OwnerEmail: jprostro@yahoo.com
Reward: $75
Description: Dark Green and Black road bike, "crank brothers" clip-in pedals. Paint scheme looks somewhat camouflaged, or as if the bike had been crashed and the green paint had been scraped off in the crash, revealing the black painted areas. Also, the bike has a computer sensor on the front fork, and magnet on the front spokes. The computer itself was not left with the bike, so the computer mount on the stem would likely be present, but empty.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 13-152584
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Daimler Trucks North America opens new bike parking facility on Swan Island

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A large crowd gathered to celebrate the opening
of a bike shelter at Daimler Trucks HQ
this morning.
(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)

Daimler Trucks North America, a commercial truck manufacturer based on Swan Island, celebrated a decidedly non-motorized achievement this morning: They opened a bike parking shelter near the main entrance of their corporate headquarters.

The new shelter can fit up to 53 bicycles in a space previously used to park just five cars. Daimler project manager Rich Wipf said demand for bike parking from Daimler’s 3,000 Swan Island employees (1,500 at corporate HQ) has increased significantly in recent years. “Some of our employees remember when just one rack was enough. Now we’ve got racks near all the entrances and they’re all filling up.”

Erik Weeman, a mechanical engineer, said there were only “a handful” of riders when he started working at Daimler two years ago. Now the existing bike racks quickly fill up in the morning. “Unless you get here early, your bike would be left out in the rain if you could even find a spot.”

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Black Trek PDX 2012

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Year: 2012
Brand: Trek
Model: PDX
Color:Black
Size:Not sure
Stolen in Portland, OR 97232
Stolen:2013-04-30
Stolen From: Locked up with a U Lock in front of Amneisa on Beech and Mississippi Ave.
Neighborhood: Mississippi
Owner: Timothy Kviz
OwnerEmail: tim(at sign)noneis.com
Description: 2012 Trek PDX. Black with silver accents. The shifter cover on the right side was cracked. It had a single black fender on the back with a few minor scuffs on it.
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Dark Green Trek 520 1990

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Year: 1990
Brand: Trek
Model: 520
Color:Dark Green
Stolen in Portland, OR 97210
Stolen:2013-04-29
Stolen From: The
Neighborhood: NW 22nd and Marshall
Owner: Tien Banks
OwnerEmail: tien.banks@gmail.com
Description: Dark Green Trek 520 "Touring" bicycle with yellow wrapped handlebars, slashed seat cushion, Shimano components, baskets on pedals, mounts for lights on front handlebar and seat post.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 13-152580
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Planning effort seeks a ‘Re-Imagined’ North Lombard Street

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Residents have resorted to homemade signs
to make people slow down on Lombard.
Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)

Lombard Street in north and northeast Portland is one of those classic urban arterials that splits up neighborhoods and is entirely unwelcoming to anything but people in cars. Now a citizen-led planning effort, “Lombard Re-Imagined” is working to change that.

Lombard Re-Imagined is the work of Swift Planning Group, a team made up of six graduate students from Portland State University’s Master of Urban and Regional Planning program. They’ve partnered up with the Kenton, Arbor Lodge, and Piedmont neighborhood associations to, “develop a vision for Lombard, focusing on how it can become a more walkable place with a unique identity that better serves the needs and wants of its neighbors.”

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With $400,000 grant, TriMet will try audible turn warning system (again)

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(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)

TriMet is once again looking at technology to improve street safety when their buses make turns. Last week, the agency announced a Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grant of $400,000 to test three turn warning systems for possible integration with their fleet.

TriMet first looked into an audible turn-warning systems for their buses back in August 2010. That step came after a TriMet driver made a left turn in northwest Portland and killed two people who were walking in a crosswalk in April 2010. They began testing a system in March 2011, but pulled the plug a few months later. At the time, TriMet said they didn’t move forward with it because,” … it was determined that the technology has not advanced enough to make it an effective tool to help alert pedestrians and people riding bikes that a bus is turning.”

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The Monday Roundup

Oh good, I was beginning to worry.

Here are all the best bike news stories and other tidbits we came across last week…

— How committed is the NYC DOT to safe streets? They recently placed “Street Safety Managers” at intersections of high-volume bikeways.

— Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was hospitalized after taking a fall while riding his bicycle. The 74-year old also managed to break ribs and puncture his lung while biking back in 1993 says the Washington Post.

— Venerable London-based news magazine The Economist had a Special Report last week on the future of the car. Their cover story, Clean, safe and it drives itself hints at the very rosy picture they paint. It’s almost as if the entire report was written by automakers.

— Yes, those sinister automakers are very sly… Everyone’s heard the startling stats about how expensive car ownership has become (over $9,000 a year says the AAA). Well, Toyota has wasted no time in trying to reverse that narrative with their new marketing campaign that focuses on the exact opposite idea — that you’ll actually save money by buying one.

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Gray Gary Fisher Hybrid 2000

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Year: 2000
Brand: Gary Fisher
Model: Hybrid
Color:Gray
Stolen in Portland, OR 97205
Stolen:2013-04-29
Stolen From: 1221 SW Washington – in front of the Washington St entrance to the Indigo and Racione.
Neighborhood: West End
Owner: Ruby Gates
OwnerEmail: rubygates( atsign )encapsysinc.com
Reward: $100
Description: Gray Gary Fisher bike with black rack on the back. Bell ringer on the front has a unique sticker with PDX Lounge on it.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: T13003664
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Obama picks Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx for USDOT Secretary – UPDATED

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Anthony Foxx could be
our next DOT Secretary.
(Photo: Anthony Foxx Facebook Page)

News has broken this evening that President Obama will pick Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx as the next US Department of Transportation Secretary. Foxx, 41, would replace Ray LaHood, who Obama appointed in December 2008.

Foxx has been mayor of Charlotte for almost four years and just recently announced he would not seek re-election. He’s a former lawyer who has spent most of his professional life in politics. From what I’ve seen reported so far, it appears Foxx does not have much transportation experience. He’s pushed for highway widening projects, he’s started a streetcar revival in Charlotte and he’s a big proponent of rail transit in general.

Here’s more on the selection of Foxx from Slate’s Matthew Yglesias:

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silver/Black Viscount 1979

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Year: 1979
Brand: Viscount
Color:silver/Black
Size:Large
Photo: http://bike-boom.blogspot.com/2013/01/silver-viscount-road-bike.html
Stolen in 97214, OR
Stolen:2013-04-17
Stolen From: Apartment on SE 30th and SE Harrison
Neighborhood: Richmond
Owner: Sean Worl
OwnerEmail: seanworl(at sign)gmail.com
Description: Black and grey Viscount road bike with black handlebar wrap and brand new black break levers. The frame is quite large (I’m 6’3″). The bike has all new cables and cable housing, it was tuned up right before it was stolen. The gear shifters are on the ends of the drop down handlebars. It has a white seat, which is a little torn up and worn. The picture above is a similar bike, and is not the bike that was stolen. The paint is the same.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 13-152412
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

pewter specialized expedition 1985

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Year: 1985
Brand: specialized
Model: expedition
Color:pewter
Size:60 cm?
Photo: http://i.imgur.com/uVoSOMK.jpg
Stolen in Portland, OR 97214
Stolen:2013-04-27
Stolen From: 5th ave, between Couch and Davis, east side of street, opposite backspace coffee shop
Neighborhood: Old Town
Owner: Craig Farrell
OwnerEmail: pedrosbus@yahoo.com
Description: cheap but nice brown leather seat, blue handlebar wrap and bottle cage super champion 700c rims, all original specialized labeling removed, old oregon bike license from 1980’s on frame, dinosaur bike bell schwalbe marathon tires
Police record with: Portland Police Bureau
Police reference#: 13-152555
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Red Nishiki

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Brand: Nishiki
Color:Red
Size:45″
Stolen in Portland, OR 97202
Stolen:2013-04-28
Stolen From: From behind the Watershed, 5040 SE Milwaukie, across the street from Oak’s Bottom Wildlife Refuge.
Neighborhood: Sellwood
Owner: Maralena Murphy
OwnerEmail: maralena.murphy(replace with at sign)gmail.com
Reward: The best massage you have ever had
Description: It’s a red Nishiki, 45″ men’s frame. It’s got Y shaped handlebars that curve back ever so slightly and have black hand grips. When it was stolen, it had black front & rear fenders and a black rack on the back with a fancy, usb-charging red blinker on it. Three front gears, five or six back gears. Probably its most noticeable feature is that there’s a cut-off old derailleur, which serves to hold the cable tension, on the center pole just beneath the (new!) front derailleur. Also when it was stolen one of the spokes on the rear wheel was broken and was being held in place with a black zip tie. The front shifter cable has a pink cable cap.

You can call me at 617.406.8299
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: T13003618
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

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