Out with the old. The Willamette Pedestrian Coalition will not exist — at least in name — after Saturday night. The non-profit that pushes for infrastructure and policies to encourage more walking has been operating in Portland for over two decades, and now it’s ready for a major change. Major changes at our region’s walking … Read more
Official logo© Pedestrian Council of Australia Ltd Bike to Work Day has a long and storied legacy in Portland; but what about walking to work? Why no big to-do for that? That’s what the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition (WPC) thought too, so they’ve done something about it. On April 6th, the WPC — along with PBOT, … Read more
Not even 24 hours has passed and the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s (PBOT) decision to include bike share in a federal funding request is already facing opposition — and some of it is coming from unlikely places. But, while this bike share funding decision is poised to become just the latest bike-related political/media punching bag, … Read more
Stephanie Routh of the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition at an Eye-to-Eye campaign event in 2009.(Photo © J. Maus) The leader of the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition, Stephanie Routh, has written a guest column in The Oregonian that provides a meaningful and important perspective on the recent TriMet bus crash that killed two people and injured three others … Read more