Bike safety 101: Let’s help folks feel better on their bikes
Help add to my responses in a recent interview where I was asked about bike safety in Portland.
Media
Let’s set the record straight on Portland’s new ‘zero emission delivery zone’
So let’s get it straight: The sky isn’t falling, it’s just getting less toxic.
Media Critique: KGW’s take on driving at night
Surprisingly, the segment wasn’t really that bad
KGW’s lopsided, fear-mongering story about new bike lanes on Broadway
Our local media and business leaders should move past this tired and false narrative that bike lanes and bike riders are the source of their problems.
Cleveland High students satirize ODOT over handling of SE Powell Blvd
This post is an indictment of ODOT and shows how their reputation has transcended the realm of transportation advocates and is now part of popular culture.
Metro Council president has written a book on ‘Roadways for People’
The book, published by Island Press, is due out in December.
Portland’s bike bus featured on NBC Nightly News
After years of terrible national headlines that (inaccurately and unfairly in my opinion) portrayed Portland as a dysfunctional war-zone wasteland, last night there was a story that will help shift that narrative. The mighty Alameda Elementary School bike bus that Portlander Sam Balto launched back in April, was featured on NBC Nightly News, one of … Read more
Former PBOT Commish Eudaly is back with ‘Street Wonk’ media outlet
I’ve been wondering for a while now: “What happened to Chloe Eudaly?” Now I know. The former Portland City Commissioner and head of the transportation bureau left office with some very choice words for “the bike community” (and for me personally, but whatever) after losing a re-election bid to Mingus Mapps in 2020. After that, … Read more
A quippy slogan has galvanized the ‘ban cars movement’
It’s impossible to explain the crusade to reform the American transportation system with a quippy slogan. But a successful movement needs a catchy tagline, and some bike and transit activists have settled on “ban cars” as the t-shirt and sticker-worthy phrase to summarize their ideology. To the average car-dependent American, however, the rallying cry comes … Read more
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 … Read more
Willamette Week highlights ODOT’s deceptive Rose Quarter freeway expansion plans
It’s one thing for critiques of a project to swirl around transportation and advocacy circles; it’s another thing when a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter hops onto the story. That’s what happened today with the Willamette Week’s publication of an article titled Questions About the Footprint of the I-5 Rose Quarter Project Intensify. The news that ODOT … Read more
