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The Portland Police Bureau released their Annual Traffic Activity Summary yesterday. The report details all the traffic violations and expenditures for 2006.
Among the stats was a page devoted to “Non-permitted Protest, Demonstration, Critical Mass”. It’s important to note not only how they categorize their presence at Critical Mass, but the amount of officers and cost to the city.
Bicycle Retailer and Industry News (BRAIN) reports that local retailer River City Bicycles has won the first-ever Greenie Award. The award was created by Specialized Bicycles as a way to, “acknowledge its retailers’ green-minded efforts and to motivate the public to reduce its global footprint.”
According to the story in BRAIN, River City won the award because of their,
“eco-conscious campaign to promote bicycling as a solution to climate change.”
Women’s style bike with mirror on left handlebar, a blue and pink shark horn on the handlebars, red handle grips on end of handlebars, a chariot trailer hitch on rear axle. Stolen from PCC cascade campus
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Silver Marin Mountain Bike, Cross terrane Tires one with a slime tube in the tire with bright green valve cap. Schimano components, 21 speed, soft tail Seet, black bike rack on back, black bell onn handelbars, possibly still has decals on it from the bike rental place in San Francisco that I bought it from 415 area code.
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To Portland’s bike insiders, savvy advocates, BTA members, and regular readers of this site, the Bicycle Master Plan Update process is nothing new. We’ve been getting excited about it for months. There have been brown bag discussions, monthly rides, steering committee meetings, a lot of coverage on this site, and so on.
But the same might not be true of the Mayor’s office.
(Note: The title of this post was originally, “Benefits fraud may stymie progress on Bike Commuter Act.” I changed it to better reflect the situation.).
I just got an email from Congressman Earl Blumenauer’s legislative assistant Katie Drennan. She said that although there is considerable momentum for the Bike Commuter Act (42 co-sponsors so far), there’s a situation brewing on the Hill that might cause a bump in the road.
Next week, we have an opportunity to show the Mayor that the Bicycle Master Plan Update is much more than just another planning process.
On Tuesday (5/1), City Bike Coordinator Roger Geller will lead the fourth in his series of Bicycle Master Plan Rides.
Geller has said that by this Summer, he hopes to have 1,000 people join him. Let’s help him reach that goal by next week. Do you think we can do it?
Word from the Mayor’s office is that he will have a statement on his decision to cut funding for the Bicycle Master Plan by the end of the week.
Stay tuned.