Down with free auto parking! Up with free market parking!
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Free Parking Is for Socialists
Down with Free Auto Parking! Up with Free Market Parking!
Bikes
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The Motorized Menace
Socialist Government Subsidies of Cars Must End!
Cars suck (the money from our patriotic pocketbooks)!
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Blue State, Red Tape
Bureaucrats! Small Businesses Shout “Bicycles!Not Job Stealing!”
Stand aside, socialists! Bikes are the vehicles of small businesses!
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Mayor’s Prius Rear-Ended by Cyclist
I live in Portland so that I can write headlines like this. The O got the photo of the day: The mayor exchanging information with a cyclist who ran into the back of the city-owned Prius he was driving. Oregonian Here’s the story, as told by mayoral spokeswoman Amy Ruiz: The mayor was driving the […]
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Businesses Willing to Pay for Carfree Street
The city transportation department has secured a permit to close part of SW Ankeny to car traffic all summer long, according to a report today in the Oregonian. The alley-like stretch of SW Ankeny between 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue is always busy with pedestrians (it’s where the VooDoo Donuts line merges with the people […]
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Bike to Work Day! Q&A with Brand New Los Angeles Cyclist Alissa Walker
Today is National Bike to Work Day and OH MY GOD it’s nearly 80 degrees in Portland. Earlier this week, I posted some bike to work tips from a drag queen. But for today, I want to share an interview I did with Alissa Walker, a Los Angeles writer who hasn’t owned a car in […]
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SE Clinton “Bike Flags”
As BikePortland reported, the city has installed a series of bike boulevard enhancements along SE Clinton, including little bicycle street-sign toppers, two new bike corrals, and three of these “bike flags”: Paul Cone Which immediately remind me of these:
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Bike to Work Tips from a Drag Queen
This coming Friday is official National Bike to Work Day, which falls at the end of official National Bike to Work Week, which is in the middle of official National Bike to Work Month. This official national designation would all be pointless, except that the Portland Bureau of Transportation is handing out free coffee and […]
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Biking is Becoming Less White
Northwest environmental research group Sightline posted an interesting report on the demographics of biking. Researchers at Rutgers and Virginia Tech combed through years of American Communities Survey data for nine large North American cities (including Portland) to figure out who’s biking by race and class. Check out their charts: As Eric de Place at Sightline […]
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Obama Appointee Ray LaHood: Pro Bikers, Not Certain About Hipsters
Attention pushers of the “War on Cars” meme: It’s not just Portland officials who’s siding with urban bikers these days. The rot goes all the way to the top! WASHINGTON—U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood signaled on Tuesday that his department would be looking into measures to encourage automobile drivers to observe better safety standards when […]
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Detour! Eastbank Esplanade Closing this Month
Construction for the streetcar has been disrupting car and bike traffic on the eastside and NW for, like, FOREVER (it feels like… actually, it’s been 11 months) but now a different rail project will be booting bike and pedestrian commuters from a busy route. Construction of the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Bridge will close a section […]
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Where Are Portland’s Next Bike Corrals?
Pambiche on NE Glisan gets classy. I posted last week about how one year into the city’s big bike plan, there’s a two-year waitlist for businesses that want to install bike corrals. Here’s what the city says on the matter, in it’s one-year bike plan update: “Following a six-fold annual increase to 30 installations in […]