I-5 project leaders pick light rail as transit option for Columbia crossing
Year: 2022
Eugene attorney Doyle Canning wants to ride climate change concerns to Congress
(Photos: Courtesy Doyle Canning)
Weekend Event Guide: Earth Day, Filmed By Bike party, Lake Oswego tour, and more
I-5 expansion project proposes repeat of CRC (or slightly less wide version)
Portland’s freeway fight gets its due with major story in The New York Times
It’s a huge day for Portland transportation reformers who want Oregon to more quickly adapt to a future where freeway expansions don’t happen and we finally break off our dysfunctional relationship with cars.
Activists who’ve spent years fighting against the negative impacts of our region’s car overuse problem woke up to a major story in the New York Times that gave their positions and opinions a national platform. To make it even better for them, the venerable news source framed their story around a question, “Can Portland Be a Climate Leader Without Reducing Driving?” that isn’t much different than the main tagline of local nonprofit No More Freeways: “Climate leaders don’t widen freeways.”
Also this morning was a meeting of the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program where project leaders outlined the Locally Preferred Alternative to elected officials from around the region. One of them, Portland Bureau of Transportation Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty picked apart their presentation and assumptions and offered some of her sharpest opposition yet to the project (full story in a few minutes). And that was Hardesty’s second meeting of the day. She was up early for Metro’s Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation where she expressed discomfort about ODOT’s plan to toll I-205 and use the money to invest in more freeways.
There’s ‘HOPE’ for Tualatin-Valley Highway as Metro moves transit project forward
Will ‘Frog Ferry’ leap forward or croak? Founder turns up heat at City Hall press conference
(Photos: Taylor Griggs/BikePortland)
New research says street paintings have promising safety impacts
(Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland)
Comment of the Week: GHG and drunken sailors
“The idea that Portland, a city that produces little and consumes like a drunken sailor, should base its emission targets on the ‘production’ metrics used in the above report is pure bull feces.”
Youth activists have one message for President Biden: No more freeways
(Photo: Taylor Griggs/BikePortland)
We’ve spent a lot of time talking about how President Biden’s Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (IIJA) is going to impact Oregon’s transportation system. Now, as Biden is traveling to Portland this week to hype up his landmark infrastructure bill, we’ll get to hear from the man himself.
Or, I should say, the lucky few who can afford a private donor luncheon with the president will get to hear from him.
For local climate activists, Biden’s visit is an opportunity to appeal to him using their common refrain: “no more freeways.”
Willamette Week reports the president will hunker down with donors at Portland Yacht Club on the Columbia River, which would give a potential speech a backdrop of the Interstate Bridge just as its backers press for a major federal grant to replace it.
Oregon will receive about $1.2 billion in federal funding, which the Oregon Transportation Commission will direct to various projects that have a range of support from transportation and climate activists.
Job: Summer Camp Counselor – Bike Clark County
Job Title
Summer Camp Counselor
Company / Organization
Bike Clark County non-profit
Job Description
Get paid to ride a bike!
BCC is looking for qualified individuals who are comfortable riding a bike in traffic, can ride 3-10 miles in a day, and have experience working with youth ages 6-9 and 10-14. You will be responsible with the day to day activities for approx 12 +/- students in this fun summer camp program. You will be responsible for helping to teach a basic bike safety curriculum and need to be able to teach in a collaborative setting.
The camp is a total of four weeks, each camp being 5 days long 9:00am-3:00pm. Besides the curriculum, the camp consists of exciting daily field trips by-bike to fun activities such as a ranger-led tour of The Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, the Pearson Air Museum, the Water Resources Center, and others!
Summer Bike Camp dates:
Week #1 July 11-15 : Ages 6-9
Week #2 July 18-22 : Ages 6-9
Week #3 July 25-29 : Ages 10-14
Week #4 Aug 1-5: Ages 10-14
Camp Location is at: Fort Vancouver National Historic Site – ANNEX
1501 E. Evergreen Blvd, Vancouver, WA 98661
How to Apply
Email cover letter and resume to: info@bikeclarkcounty.org
Hourly pay rate $17-$20 DOE
City reveals latest designs for SW Broadway bike lanes
