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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)
Imagine when it goes all the way to St. Johns!(Photo: npGreenway) Just about five years ago, a small group of Portlanders gathered for the first time to share an audacious vision — a dream to extend the Eastbank Esplanade north from the Steel Bridge to Cathedral Park in St. Johns. Since then, they’ve coalesced into … Read more
“… But we’re still not really cracking into the heart of the core [federal] programs in a way that our mode share and crash record really demands.”— Andy Clarke, President, League of American Bicyclists Number-crunching by the League of American Bicyclists shows that the percentage of funds spent by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) on … Read more
Waiting to cross near Beaverton City Hall.(Photo © J. Maus) What would happen if police officers in a suburban city went out and did a crosswalk law enforcement action (a.k.a. sting) at a busy intersection? Well, the Beaverton Police Department found out last Wednesday. Beaverton PD officers spent five hours, from 10:00 am to 3:00 … Read more
When it comes to being well-lit, Mark Allyn does it with style.(Photos © J. Maus)
New box at Lovejoy and 9th to facilitate “Copenhagen Left” (instead of crossing new streetcar tracks at a dangerous angle).(Photos © J. Maus) The Portland Streetcar Loop Project has brought major changes to bikeways in the Pearl District. With new tracks, new medians and a new recommended route for bikes, PBOT has released a detailed … Read more