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Obama: “Everyone benefits if we can leave our cars, walk, bicycle…”

“I will work to provide states and local governments with the resources they need to address sprawl and create more livable communities.”– President-elect Obama, in a letter to T4 America President-elect Barack Obama has responded to an online petition circulated by national advocacy...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-19-2008
Bike tax seen as neccessary to address “political reality”

“We’re not going to put our blinders on and say ‘no, we refuse to talk about it’.”–BTA lobbyist Karl Rohde One of the many interesting conversations that we’ll follow in the upcoming legislative session is the concept of a bike tax. We shared news of the tax...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-19-2008
Neighborhood support grows for Going St. bike boulevard

A banner for the BTA’s campaign seenat an event this summer.(Photos © J. Maus) Back in August, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) announced that Going Street would be the focus of their first major effort to create a new bike boulevard in Portland. Since then, BTA staffer Emily Gardner has...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-19-2008
Guest Article: Two rights don’t make a right

Jessica Roberts(Photo © J. Maus) This article was written by Jessica Roberts. Jessica is the former metro area advocate for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance and she is now a planner with Alta Planning and Design, one of the nation’s premier bike and pedestrian planning firms. Jessica previously...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
B-SMaRT close calls/crash reporting tool: One month later

This map shows were close calls and collisions have been reported with the BikePortland B-SMaRT tool.Click to enlarge(Graphic: Joe Broach). It’s been just about one month since we launched the Bike Safety and Monitoring Reporting Tool, a.k.a. B-SMaRT. The Google Maps-based tool is a new way to...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
Momentum’s new safety vid: “Let’s Get Visible”

Momentum publisher/editor Amy Walker as Olivia Newton-John in “Let’s Get Visible”.- Watch video below - The folks at Vancouver, BC-based Momentum Magazine have combined their passion for safe biking with their fun and fashionable style to create a new PSA for their local Bike to Work...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
Metro, BTA support bike tax concept

The BTA’s Karl Rohde (in red) says he supports the concept of a bike tax.(Photo © J. Maus) Both Metro and the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) are supportive of an idea to create a bike tax. The idea came up as a small (and for the most part unnoticed) part of the Governor Kulongoski’s...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-12-2008
Metro, BTA support bike tax concept [updated]

*[UPDATE: I have edited this story to clarify that the bike tax is not, at this time, a part of Governor Kulongoski's Jobs and Transportation Act.] The BTA’s Karl Rohde (in red) says he supports the concept of a bike tax.(Photo � J. Maus) Both Metro and the Bicycle Transportation Alliance ...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-12-2008
Advocates hope new plan will spur improvements in Southwest

Cover of Bicycle Facilities Strategy to Reach Platinum Status in Southwest Portland. A major effort to bring the quality of biking in Southwest Portland up to the standards of the rest of the city has finally landed on PDOT’s desk. SWTrails — a subcommittee of the Southwest Neighborhoods...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-04-2008
Tonight (or online): Tell Metro where to spend $28 million in federal funds

Imagine the Willamette Greenway Trail extending the Esplanade to St. Johns.(Photo: Scott Mizee/npGreenway) It’s that time of year again when Metro seeks your comments on how they should spend millions of dollars in federal funds through their regional flexible funding program (also known as MTIP...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-30-2008

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