4/25: Hello readers and friends. I'm still recovering from a surgery I had on 4/11, so I'm unable to attend events and do typical coverage. See this post for the latest update. I'll work as I can and I'm improving every day! Thanks for all your support 🙏. - 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.
