Veer documentary will screen at Portland Art Museum tomorrow
You’ve heard about it, now tomorrow is your chance to see it for yourself in Portland.
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Who’s deciding where our state’s stimulus money goes?
OTC Commissioners: Gail Achterman Michael Nelson Janice Wilson Alan Brown David Lohman See photos/bios below Now that it’s crunch-time for the Oregon Department of Transportation and their Oregon Transportation Commission (OTC) to decide on how to spend the infrastructure chunk of our federal stimulus money, I thought you might want to know a little more … Read more
Bike projects expected to compete better in next phase of stimulus funding
State transportation planners are scrambling to get their “shovel ready” projects in order and they’re waiting eagerly by their inboxes this morning. That’s because any day now, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is expected to release the application forms for what they’re calling “Phase II of the Federal Economic Stimulus”. I spoke with ODOT’s … Read more
Tonight: Join us for a Get Together in Multnomah Village
Greg Raisman (center) from the Bureau of Transportation joined us at our Get Together in St. Johns last month.(Photo © J. Maus) Tonight, I’m headed to Southwest Portland for the second in our ongoing series of Get Together events. We’ll be at the Lucky Labrador Brewpub in Multnomah Village (7675 SW Capitol Hwy.) from 5-7:00pm. … Read more
BTA gears up for big Alice Awards bash
(L to R) Mark Ginsberg (an Alice Award nominee), Dat Nguyen, and Ben Salzberg at last year’s Alice event.(Photos © J. Maus) The BTA’s biggest annual fundraiser, the Alice B. Toeclips Awards and Auction, is happening this Saturday and the Portland-based non-profit is pulling out all the stops to make sure it’s a successful event. … Read more
Sprockettes rally as fellow bike dancer clings to life
Hollis Hawthorne (furthest to the left)at a performance in San Francisco lastsummer(Photos © J. Maus) Hollis Hawthorne, one of the founders of The Bay Area Derailleurs bike dance troupe, is clinging to life in India today. The Derailleurs were formed in 2007 by former Portlander and Sprockette Eliza Strack and they performed last summer in … Read more
Heading down to the L.A. Bike Summit
Reporting by Brompton inBaltimore last month(Photo: Patrick McMahon) I’m headed out tomorrow afternoon to Los Angeles for the first-ever L.A. Bike Summit on Saturday, March 7th. L.A., iconic land of freeways, may seem like an unlikely place for bicycling to flourish, but that seems to be what is happening. In an op-ed for the L.A. … Read more
CRC rally planned for April; Commissioner Fritz will attend
Joe Kurmaskie, seen here at the “We are All Traffic” rally held in November 2007 after two bike fatalities.(Photo © J. Maus) Mayor Sam Adams’ support of a proposal that would authorize the construction of a new I-5 bridge that could “be built to accomodate up to 12 lanes” has sparked a new level of … Read more
Group responds to ODOT/OTC stimulus decision: “What went wrong?”
“What went wrong?… The Transportation Commission got heavy pressure from pro-highway legislators, road builders, and Washington County and other local governments looking for road-building money.”— excerpt from a statement set to go out to supporters of Transportation for Oregon’s Future Transportation for Oregon’s Future — a “network of organizations and businesses supporting transportation choices for … Read more
Oregon chooses just one bike/ped project with stimulus funds
Riders will no longer be in the dark on the I-205 bike path.(Photo © J. Maus) On Friday, the Oregon Transportation Commission (OTC, a body appointed by Governor Kulongoski) made their final decisions on how to spend $122,592,742 in federal stimulus funds. And, if you remember our report from last week, it seems like their … Read more
Pedaling Revolution and more new titles in the BikePortland Bookstore
It’s been a while since we last added new titles to the BikePortland Bookstore. In the meantime, some new books have been released, most notably local author Jeff Mapes’ Pedaling Revolution, and many more old, good ones brought to our attention. A selection of newly featured titles is below.
Editorial: Conservative columnist speaks out against highways
“The US has big economic problems. But they have been made worse, and harder to resolve, by a half-century in which, at federal urging, the country was misbuilt.”— Christopher Caldwell, The Weekly Standard Reflecting on Obama’s address to congress last week (in which he said that America “cannot walk away from” the automobile), columnist Christopher … Read more