2016 Active Transportation Summit will tackle freight, housing, the Gorge and more

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A plenary session at the 2013 Active
Transportation Summit.
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)

Once a year, Portland’s biking, walking, transit and public-space wonks gather to share what they’ve been learning and thinking lately.

The Oregon Active Transportation Summit, which runs March 13-15 at the Sentinel Hotel in downtown Portland, isn’t cheap to attend, unless you compare it to almost any other conference. But it’s a feast for the brain, and this year’s agenda has quite a few interesting sessions.

This year’s keynote speakers will be Lynn Peterson, Washington’s recently ousted state transportation secretary; Seleta Reynolds, general manager of Los Angeles’ transportation department; and Jim Sayer, executive director of the Adventure Cycling Association.

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The wait is over- Free Coffee for Bicyclists, Tomorrow: Tuesday, 2/23, 7-9:30am

Come join the Pedal PT crew tomorrow (Tuesday) morning for our Monthly FREE COFFEE for Bicyclists Event!

What: Free Coffee for Bicyclists, pedestrians and passers by with Pedal PT. Coffee From K&F Roasters, our neighbor on the corner of SE 26th and Clinton.
When: Tuesday, 2/23 7am until 9:30am
Where: SE 25th and Clinton
Why: At Pedal PT, we’ve been doing these monthly Free Coffee events for bike commuters now for over 3 years, and our office looks forwards to it every month, as a fun way to give back to the cycling community that gives us so much back!

. . .Now, we just gotta get Jonathan to come down one of these mornings 🙂

So plan leave a little early tomorrow for the morning commute down Clinton – – – We’ll see you then!

The Monday Roundup: Terrible transit maps, 7,000 abandoned bikes & more

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Which bus would you like?
(Image via Cameron Booth)

This week’s Monday Roundup is brought to you by Lancaster Engineering, a Portland-based firm that is hosting a “Parking Pow-Wow” event tomorrow (2/23).

Here are the bike-related links from around the world that caught our eyes this week:

Terrible maps: The world’s worst transit maps are pretty funny.

Bike migration: 7,000 abandoned bicycles near the Mexican border put journalist Kimball Taylor on the trail of a man who made millions smuggling humans northward.

One-way streets: Less human-friendly than two-way streets, right? Not so fast, argues the blog Urban Residue. Part of its evidence: Portland.

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