Event: Safe Cycling for Families (11/16/10)

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Event Name: FREE Workshop: “Safe City Cycling for Families”
Event Start Date: 16 November 2010
Start Time: 4:00:00 PM
Web Site: http://www.portlandonline.com/transportation/index.cfm?event_id=51174&cal=DisplayEvent&c=49923
Event Description: Safe City Cycling for Families

Nov 16 (TU)
4:00 – 5:30 PM
Flying Rhino Building
1440 NW Overton Street, 97209
(map)

Cycling in urban areas presents families with wonderful opportunities for mobility, fitness, and spending time together. It also presents families with the challenges of negotiating traffic, ensuring that children are safe and comfortable, and selecting the best routes.

This workshop, brought to you by the Portland Safe Routes to School program, includes:

– Instruction on safe city cycling with children

– Assistance identifying safe routes from home to school (or other destinations)

– Tips on winter comfort

– Recommendations for Bike Train leaders

RSVP to Clay at clay.veka(at)portlandoregon(dot)gov or 503-823-4998.

Childcare and translation services available upon request.

Event: PDX Cycle Swap (11/14/10)

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Event Name: PDX Cycle Swap
Event Start Date: 14 November 2010
Start Time: 12:00:00 PM
Web Site: http://www.pdxcycleswap.com
Event Description: Held Indoors – Season Ending PDX Cycle Swap this coming Sunday Nov 14th from 12-6

Bring all your bicycles, parts, accessories, anything! This event will be free of charge to all vendors and viewers so come on down if you want to particiapte!

We are unsure about how the turnout will be because of seasons changing and cyclecross season has taken lots of our following but doors will be open to all!

Hope to see you there!

www.pdxcycleswap.com
Contact Email: info(at)pdxcycleswap(dot)com

PBOT Bicycle Advisory Committee Agenda – November 2010

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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 19th that will initiate a 45-day public comment period. More information here: http://www.metro-region.org/index.cfm/go/by.web/id=227.

Roadway Not Improved — 6:25
Leah Hyman and colleagues from LARKE will give a short presentation on their project: Roadway Not Improved and ask the committee for their support. LARKE is a group of PSU Masters of Urban Planning students (now graduates) who worked as consultants with the Woodstock Neighborhood Association in 2010. Their project, Roadway Not Improved, explores uses, perceptions and community-based improvement strategies for unimproved roadways in Portland. More information here: http://www.roadwaynotimproved.com/.

Bicycling Down Under — 6:55
Bicycle Coordinator Roger Geller recently returned from a two-week trip to Australia where he met with state ministers, local elected council officials, advocates, government technical staff and delivered a keynote address at Australia’s national bicycle conference. Roger will present his observations of conditions for bicycling in Australia’s two largest cities—Sydney and Melbourne—and discuss what lessons we might take away from them.

Committee Business — 7:25

Adjourn — 8:00

Gray Jamis XAM 1.0 2008

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Year: 2008
Brand: Jamis
Model: XAM 1.0
Color:Gray
Size:16
Photo: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/4e2MkhtMIRyqG8WJkwvFRQ?feat=directlink
Stolen in Portland, OR 97201
Stolen:2010-11-3
Stolen From: 1700 SW Broadway, 97201. Out front of Cramer Hall on PSU Campus along Broadway. It was locked to a green bike rack.
Neighborhood: Downtown
Owner: James Raspen
OwnerEmail: jraspen4@gmail.com
Reward: yes
Description: It does have a black die cut “shoreline” sticker on the top tube. It needs a new chain, the left front brake works but the lever pops out, and the seat is kinda of ripped up. The shifter displays are broken as well.
Police record with: Portland PD, PSU Campus Safety
Police reference#: 10-155384
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Another black eye for bikes in Colorado – Updated

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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 this…

According to the Vail Daily, “A financial manager for wealthy clients will not face felony charges for a hit-and-run because it could jeopardize his job.”

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The Monday Roundup

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Chuck Ayers of Cascade.
(Photo © J. Maus)

– When slow and fast sidewalk lanes appeared in NYC last year it was a joke, but now a group of London business owners are seriously lobbying to create a slow lane for tourists on the overflowing sidewalks of Oxford Street.

– A slideshow presentation on the little-acknowledged truth that it’s okay to be fat and ride a bike has been making the rounds. You can check out the pictures and read the accompanying script below.

Read more

Black Trek 7000

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Brand: Trek
Model: 7000
Color:Black
Stolen in Portland, OR 97206
Stolen:2010-10-28
Stolen From: Found !
Neighborhood: SE
Owner: Penny Judalena
OwnerEmail: Daveandpenny@comcast.net
Description: Found in our front yard before Halloween! Black Trek 7000 with distinct stickers. Please email your description/serial number. We will turn it in to police soon

Orange Motobecane Messenger 2008

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Year: 2008
Brand: Motobecane
Model: Messenger
Color:Orange
Stolen in Portland, OR 97209
Stolen:2010-11-5
Stolen From: White Stag Building
70 NW Couch St.
Portland OR 97209
Neighborhood: Old Town
Owner: Craig Race
OwnerEmail: crace@me.com
Reward: Cash, negotiable
Description: There was a computer mount on the handlebars, but no computer.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: T10007540
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Grey-Blue AGGRESSOR GT 2009

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Year: 2009
Brand: AGGRESSOR GT
Color:Grey-Blue
Stolen in Portland, OR 97232
Stolen:2010-11-2
Stolen From: I locked it at the outside plaza at Lloyd Center Mall (NE Portland, OR) where Stanford’s & Nordstrom meet. It was at night between 6 p.m. & 10 p.m. The lighting is poor there; DON’T PARK YOUR BIKES THERE!
Neighborhood: Lloyd Center Mall — NE Portland, OR
Owner: Robert Cavalier
OwnerEmail: cavsbiz@yahoo.com
Reward: $50
Description: I’m 6 feet tall. My grey-blue AGGRESSOR GT had a white plastic cover on the seat. It also had toe-clips. The thief snapped the metal cable lock in 2. PLEASE DO NOT USE THESE FLIMSY LOCKS! THIEVES CUT THEM EASILY!
Police record with: Portland P.D.
Police reference#: They will mail me 1.
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike

Black Specialized Globe City 6 2008

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Year: 2008
Brand: Specialized
Model: Globe City 6
Color:Black
Size:58
Serial: WUD70693613B
Stolen in Portland, OR 97201
Stolen:2010-11-5
Stolen From: Stolen from the bike rack area between Lincoln and Cramer Halls on PSU campus at SW Broadway and Mill St.
Neighborhood: PSU Campus, downtown Portland
Owner: Matt Lancaster
OwnerEmail: remarkableearth@yahoo.com
Reward: yes
Description: Commuter bike with a f/r light, right grip gear changer, bell, chain fender, internal rear hub, two bottle cages, rear wheel rack, pump, and tag-a-long attachment to the seat post. Also stolen were a helmet, cable and lock.
Police record with: PSU Police
Police reference#: 10-0618
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

CRC Update: Project Sponsors Council meets November 12th

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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 next meeting Friday, Nov. 12.

Tom Warne, chair of the Expert Review Panel, will describe the panel’s work to date and expected next steps. In addition, the Project Sponsors Council will discuss a new work plan proposed by the Integrated Project Sponsors Council Staff (IPS), which includes sub-groups that will focus on project phasing, management and governance. Additional work topics are expected to include project advisory groups, schedule, mitigation, updated cost estimates and other topics.

The meeting will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at the Region 1 office of the Oregon Department of Transportation, 123 NW Flanders Street in Portland. It is open to the public. Meeting materials will be posted online as they are available at http://www.columbiarivercrossing.org/ProjectPartners/PSCMeetingMaterials.aspx.

The Project Sponsors Council is composed of representatives from the Washington and Oregon departments of transportation, cities of Portland and Vancouver, Metro, Southwest Washington Regional Transportation Council, TriMet, and C-TRAN, as well as two citizens who serve as co-chairs for the group. The governors of Oregon and Washington charged the Project Sponsors Council with advising the project on completion of the Final Environmental Impact Statement, project design, project timeline, sustainable construction methods, consistency with greenhouse gas emission reduction goals and the financial plan.

Written comments may be submitted on the CRC project at any time at feedback@columbiarivercrossing.org. More information is available on the CRC project Web site: www.columbiarivercrossing.org.

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