Cross Crusade #6 Astoria – Chapter 2 from Burk Webb on Vimeo. Local racer and digital media pro Burk Webb is creating quite a following with his cyclocross videos. He has been sharing his work via the OBRA email list each week with the subject line of “(Race name) in convenient video form.”
This just in from our friend @mrbowers on Twitter, PBOT has striped a new bike lane on the eastern end of the Burnside Bridge prior to the crossing of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd (and I think further on along Burnside as well)… Looking east on Burnside, just west of MLK.(Photo: @mrbowers/Twitter)
The crowd watches the hi-vis fashion show.-Slideshow below-(Photos © J. Maus) TriMet’s Be Seen Be Safe event last Friday was a good success. There was a healthy turnout and being in Pioneer Square helped it attract even more attention (which is, after all, the whole point). I was happy to see two local TV stations … Read more
(Photo © J. Maus) The Willamette Pedestrian Coalition (WPC) will host a presentation and discussion tomorrow night to spur attention on walking issues, or what they call “Feet as traffic.” At the event, the WPC will discuss why advocating for walking is important, how this movement is growing, potential synergies with bike advocates, and what … Read more
This just in from Portland Police Burea: PORTLAND POLICE RESPONDING TO A COLLISION INVOLVING THREE PEDESTRIANS Posted: November 8th, 2010 11:55 AM At approximately 11:15 today, November 8, 2010, Portland Police responded to a collision on North Lombard Street near the intersection of North Interstate Avenue involving a vehicle and three pedestrians. All three persons … Read more
Meets at 6:00 pm on 11/9 at the Lovejoy Room in City Hall (1221 SW 4th). AGENDA Announcements — 6:00 Lake Oswego to Portland Transit Project — 6:10 Patrick Sweeney (PBOT) and Karen Withrow (Metro) will provide a brief update on this project. The project will publish its DEIS (Draft Environmental Impact Statement) on November … Read more
A petition on Change.org has over 2,700 signatures. It’s been a rough year for Colorado. First there was the ban on bicycling in Black Hawk, then a candidate for Governor, Dan Maes, likened Colorado’s bike-sharing program to a “U.N. plot” (thankfully, comments like that earned Maes a paltry 10% of the vote). And now comes … Read more
A sampling of Portland’s fall colors.(Photos © J. Maus)
For those of you following the CRC project, an important meeting of the all-powerful Project Sponsors Council is coming up on November 12th. Press release is below… Project Sponsors Council meets November 12 VANCOUVER – The Columbia River Crossing Project Sponsors Council will hear an update about the Bridge Type Expert Review Panel at its … Read more
Teens are looking past cars these days.(Photo © J. Maus) An interesting article published on MSNBC.com today touched on a trend we’ve been hearing about for a while now — that today’s teens aren’t as excited about getting a car as their parents were. Here are the stats via MSNBC: The percentage of new cars … Read more
This just in from Metro… looks like the Portland region is in final round of LivCom awards. We’re up against Curitiba, Brazil, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, and Changwon City, South Korea. Interesting. Didn’t know they had serious awards like this. Neat that we’re in the finals though. Winner announced Sunday. Full release below: Metro … Read more
Portland Design Works founders Dan Powell (L) and Erik Olson headed out to deliver $9,000 worth of bike lights to the BTA.(Photo: Portland Design Works)