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‘Street fee’ emerges as top choice for new transportation revenue

High Crash Corridors campaign launch-3

SE Foster Road.
(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland)

An idea that’s spent six years in City Hall’s back rooms is bubbling back up: a fee on each Portland household, and probably businesses too, that could pay for street paving, sidewalks, streetcars and protected bike lanes.

If approved by city council — or possibly by a public vote — it’d buttress Oregon’s sagging gasoline tax as a way to maintain and improve the city’s $15 billion transportation system starting as soon as late 2015, supporters say.

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Robbins Egg Blue Surly Crosscheck 2012

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Year: 2012
Brand: Surly
Model: Crosscheck
Color:Robbins Egg Blue
Serial: M11111920
Stolen in Portland, OR 97211
Stolen:2013-12-11
Stolen From: NE 27TH & Ainsworth
Neighborhood: Concordia Neighborhoon
Owner: Michelle Mulhair
OwnerEmail: michellemulhair( atsign )yahoo.com
Description: Black front and rear fenders and a black rear rack
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 13-103199
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

18th annual Holiday Bike Drive makes cheer for over 375 kids

2013 Holiday Bike Drive

A new bike, thanks to the Community Cycling Center.
(Photo by Greg Lee)

The Community Cycling Center’s 18th annual Holiday Bike Drive took place on Sunday at Legacy Emanuel Hospital in north Portland. The event brings together dozens of volunteers who set up low-income families with nearly 400 shiny refurbished bicycles and tricycles. In many ways, the event is a rite of passage for the kids and the volunteers — both of whom aren’t likely to ever forget the experience.

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New nonprofit ‘Move Oregon’ launches with vision of car-lite prosperity

Screen capture from the new MoveOregon.org.

A team of heavy hitters from Portland’s private, public and nonprofit sectors has teamed up to create what looks like Oregon’s most important new transportation nonprofit in years.

It’s setting out to be, in a sense, public transportation’s answer to the Bicycle Transportation Alliance or to AAA Oregon.

In the five months since BikePortland reported on the group’s formation, Move Oregon — that’s its new name — has recruited a bike-friendly director and an impressive board that includes BTA Executive Director Rob Sadowsky, BTA-director-turned-planning-consultant Catherine Ciarlo, Portland Streetcar Executive Director Rick Gustafson and Portland Business Alliance Vice President Bernie Bottomly.

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Black Scott Sub 40 2011

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Year: 2011
Brand: Scott
Model: Sub 40
Color:Black
Size:Small
Stolen in Portland, OR 97232
Stolen:2013-11-25
Stolen From: NE 23rd and irving, Monterey apartment.
Neighborhood: Kerns
Owner: Molly Hendler
OwnerEmail: mollyrhendler(AT)gmail.com
Reward: 100
Description: Drop down handlebars with seafoam green wrap. Basket, rack, and fenders.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 13-101516
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

ODOT Bike & Ped Advisory Committee to meet in Portland

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Here’s a good chance to see how the states official Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee operates. The OBPAC is set to meet in Portland on December 18th. Public is welcome to attend. Details are below…

Dec. 9, 2013

For more information: Sheila Lyons, Bicycle & Pedestrian program manager, (503) 986-3555 or Shelley M. Snow, ODOT Public Affairs, (503) 986-3438

SALEM – The Oregon Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee will hold its next meeting 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 18 in Portland, at the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Region 1 headquarters, 123 NW Flanders. Agenda items include discussions about the ConnectOregon V application review process, ODOT Maintenance practices as they relate to biking, and Enhance It funding for 2017 – 2020.

Those who wish to testify are encouraged to sign up on the public comment sheet provided at the meeting. General guidelines: provide written summaries when possible and limit comments to 3 minutes. If you bring written summaries or other materials to the meeting, please provide the chairperson with a copy prior to your testimony.

Accommodations will be provided to persons with disabilities. To request an accommodation, please call ODOT’s Bicycle/Pedestrian Program office at (503) 986-3555 or statewide relay, 7-1-1.

Black Cannondale Badboy 2013

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Year: 2013
Brand: Cannondale
Model: Badboy
Color:Black
Stolen in Portland/or/97211, OR
Stolen:2013-12-9
Stolen From: Hollywood 24 hr fitness
Neighborhood: Hollywood
Owner: Gerard Hood
OwnerEmail: Gerardhood(AT)gmail.com
Reward: 200
Description: All black, gold presta adapter caps, head lamp on handle bars
Police record with: Portland
Police reference#: 13-102858
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike

silver Look KG196 1993

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Year: 1993
Brand: Look
Model: KG196
Color:silver
Stolen in Portland, OR 97213
Stolen:2013-12-9
Stolen From: It was locked in my garage
Neighborhood: Gateway
Owner: holly hall
OwnerEmail: hahahshall(A T)gmail.com
Description: Silver carbon fiber Look bicycle 1993 KG 196 Black seat Blue and yellow handle bar wrap. Living in the hood is good sticker on it.
Police record with: Portland OR.
Police reference#: 13102778
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Student project could become two-way buffered bike lane in Eugene

Rendering of 13th at Oak Street in Eugene.
(Image: LiveMove)

When we explored four reasons college towns tend to be bike-friendly last month, we left one off: they produce lots of technical experts who are passionate about improving their communities.

It looks as if a group of Eugene students is likely to do exactly that. After nine months of volunteer planning, the University of Oregon group LiveMove has unveiled a plan for their city’s second two-way bike facility, and the city government is officially considering it.

The plan is for 13th Avenue, a one-mile one-way corridor between the UO campus and Olive Street in downtown Eugene. The east-west route has a bike lane, a bus line and various commercial storefronts.

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