Stimulus for the Springwater: Trail gets $1.8 million for repaving
The Springwater Corridor Trail will get some much-needed TLC this summer.(Map of project boundaries courtesy of the City of Portland)
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Metro flexes funding muscle for bikes
Bike boulevard infrastructure, like this bike turn median in Southeast Portland, will get a major funding boost thanks to a Metro committee.(Photo © J. Maus) Yesterday was a big day for Metro and for non-motorized transportation advocates around the region. Between decisions on how to spend funds from the federal stimulus package (I’ll report on … Read more
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
Blumenauer in NY Times: A “bicycle evangelist”
Blumenauer in front of his office in D.C.(Photo © J. Maus) The New York Times has published a profile on Portland Congressional Rep. Earl Blumenauer. The story, A Bicycle Evangelist With the Wind Now at His Back appears above-the-fold on page two of the paper’s weekly “Science Times” section. Unlike the recent anti-bike comments by … Read more