Kittie Knox is surfacing again with welcome arms. Knox is a cyclist from Boston who lived in the late 1800s and died early at age 26. There are few facts and one might think she is a token to be bandied about. But this is not true. And thanks to Lorenz Finison who published The … Read more
With incredible support from many people and organizations, the Gorge Pedal ride happened this July. It delights my soul that this happened and reinforces several public and hidden agendas in regard to our needs of our incredible World Heritage Site worthy Columbia River Gorge.
I want a new traffic lane. I want a new traffic lane for my birthday. Well not my birthday, but it would be great to have new lane to celebrate the Oregon Bike Bill. The lanes I want are on the Abernathy Bridge for bicycles, e-bikes, scooters, skateboarders, pedestrians and who are primarily human powered … Read more
Jul 12, 2018 Dear Governor Kate Brown, RE: Multiple Issues of the Task Force on Autonomous Vehicles (AV) I have concern there is no representation from our Oregon Pedestrian and Bicycle community advocacy groups on the legislatively created Autonomous Vehicle Taskforce. I realize this Task Force Committee was legislatively driven & ODOT appointed, but our … Read more
ON Monday April 23rd, Oregon Parks and Recreation (OPRD) held their first open hearing regarding allowance of e-bikes on state park paths and several beaches. What I found fascinating was that all the personal testimony of individuals and also 3 businesses which rent and sell e-bikes were completely positive. In March I was at the … Read more
A personal reflection on aging in the saddle.
Tale of Two Taxes: The bicycle tax and taxing transportation system. The Bike Industry leaders in the May 15th BikePDX article state an excellent articulation of the troubles with taxing a single mode. Earlier this month a comment was made about taxing the ADA modes of wheel chairs & personal mobility devices as bringing intersections … Read more
Oregon’s innovative road use fee program gets a positive review.
I have been thinking about death lately. First~ there is Vision Zero; there are my patients (I work with the end of life vision care); every month there are friends and acquaintances who face an earlier demise than the rest of us; and then there is Ragnar. Ragnar is in a soap opera that I … Read more
Safe Routes to Schools should be the centerpiece of the plan.
The plan includes Health as its sixth goal. It is 1/2 page in the summary and barely 1 full page.
I find it is missing teeth. It asks nothing of ODOT to execute these ideas.