This column is edited by Bike Loud PDX volunteers Catie Gould and Emily Guise.
Our goal is to share experiences and insights gleaned by activists doing work “in the trenches” of Portland’s transportation reform movement. See the introduction post here.
“Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.” – Gloria Steinem Burnout is a part of activism that doesn’t get talked about often enough. Ever since we celebrated the fourth anniversary of BikeLoudPDX (the all-volunteer activism group I co-chair) in August 2018, I began to … Read more
It didn’t just happen.
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My street is a little better already.
Public access to crash information is a piece to the Vision Zero puzzle.
We spent a week talking to people about Better Naito
This is the conclusion to Kiel Johnson’s grassroots effort to talk to more of his neighbors about a transportation project. Don’t miss part one and part two. After three days of knocking on doors inviting our neighbors to an ice cream social to discuss the proposed Lloyd to Woodlawn Neighborhood Greenway, it was time to … Read more
We knocked on 200 doors.
True, boots-on-the-ground, neighborhood-level activism.
The new system would increase access to transportation options.
Next time you see a bike lane obstruction, you know what to do.
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