Q&A: Melissa Wells on everyone’s stake in transportation equity
Melissa Wells on why equity matters in transportation.
Oregon Active Transportation Summit
This annual event (originally started in 2006 as the Oregon Bicycle Tourism Summit) brings together policymakers, advocates and citizen activists to learn, network, and actively lobby the state legislature to improve bicycling, walking and public transit.
Reflective clothing mandate, other bike bills up for hearing in Oregon house – UPDATED
Oregon’s biggest legislative session for bike-related issues in years will come to its first peak on Monday, but many biking advocates have a prior engagement.
NYC and DC advocates top the agenda at Oregon Active Transportation Summit
Earlybird registration ends next week.
Lessons for Portland transportation from the Beijing subway
How easy is Portland’s transportation system to use, really?
As a low-car generation rises, youth organizers step up transportation activism
Few Portlanders rely more on low-car transportation than teens. Some are getting more sophisticated in advocating for better public transit, biking and walking.
Are parking permits a solution to neighborhood parking wars?
As the city’s transportation director hints that Portland should stop giving away so much of its on-street parking space for free, a local parking expert is floating one way to do it.
Business, fun and diversity on the agenda at Oregon Active Transportation Summit
The two-day Oregon Active Transportation Summit, which starts one week from Monday, is filling out its schedule and the good stuff is starting to spill over.
Oregon Active Transportation Summit will bring two days of bikey braininess to Portland
The state’s biggest conference about biking and walking policy is next month, and unlike in past years, it’ll take place in Portland.
Active Transportation Summit kicks off in Salem today
PBOT Bicycle Coordinator Roger Geller speaking at the summit this morning.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) The Oregon Active Transportation Summit is going on right now at the Salem Convention Center. 350 attendees will spend today and tomorrow learning, networking, and getting inspired to make cities throughout Oregon a better place to walk and bike. The Summit … Read more
Mark Gorton to keynote Oregon Active Transportation Conference
Mark Gorton.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Mark Gorton, the founder of OpenPlans and the influential advocacy media empire Streetsblog, will deliver the keynote speech at the Oregon Active Transportation Summit next month. The Summit takes place in Salem on April 24-25th and the agenda feature a host of speakers, breakout sessions, and a lobbying day at … Read more
Getting to know Washington County’s new bikeway design ‘Toolkit’
Susan Peithman with the Bicycle Transportation Alliance was one of the presenters.(Photos and story by Will Vanlue) The most interesting (in my opinion) and well-attended session I sat in on at the Oregon Active Transportation Summit focused on the work being done just over the hill from Portland in Washington County. The session covered a … Read more
At Summit, PBOT Director announces new 10% bike mode split goal
Director of PBOT, Tom Miller, at the Oregon Active Transportation Summit. During a speech at the Oregon Active Transportation Summit in Salem yesterday, PBOT Director Tom Miller got advocates up to speed on the funding crisis at the agency and organizational changes they’ve made that could reap benefits for bicycling. In addition, Miller made the … Read more