Note: I'm currently on a family trip and not working normal hours. Email and message responses will be delayed and story and posting volumes here and on our social media accounts will not be at their usual levels until I return to Portland September 4th. Thanks for your patience and understanding. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
After three years at the helm of The Street Trust, Executive Director Jillian Detweiler plans to leave the organization. “It is the right time for me to step down,” she said in a statement released Friday. The Street Trust, which was known as the Bicycle Transportation Alliance before a name and mission change in 2016, … Read more
“Pilot extended sidewalks using temporary materials along Civic Corridors, Pedestrian Districts, parks, grocery stores and other essential services.” — Bike Loud PDX
Idaho Stop: Easy to do, hard to pass.
The search is not off to a good start.
Oregon’s largest active transportation advocacy group is the latest to request that the Oregon Department of Transportation complete a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for their I-5 Rose Quarter project. In a letter dated today, The Street Trust’s Executive Director Jillian Detweiler says an EIS is needed, “So that project impacts and mitigation can be … Read more
Expectation have been set. Will they be met?
“Portland used to be a leader in sustainable transportation.”
Local transportation advocacy just got more political.
The lack of justification from ODOT is strange.
“To urge legislators to support HB 2017 was to urge support of a compromise.”
She was TriMet’s director of real estate for four years.
Comment of the Week: Gratitude for N/NE Broadway project