followup
awhile back, in an entry called "unfinished business," i talked about a hit and run that happened back in st. louis two years ago. some jerk blew through a red light in a 98 yukon and took out a guy on...
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sent the following to mark moline in the city attorney's office:back in november you sent me the attached letter, taking the position (in effect) that the public hearing requirement of ORS 814.420(2)...
View Articlemeeting notes
this is is a page from a presentation PBoT has put together to promote bike boulevards:http://www.scribd.com/doc/29513837/Northeast-Going-at-33rdthe page shows the intersection of NE going with 33rd,...
View Articleso is this a done deal
went to this open house the other night. the guy from PBoT was there, kyle chisek, project manager, with three easels and a bunch of huge storyboards, the first set of which introduced the idea of what...
View Articlediversion street
liz mahon, PBoT project manager for the division "streetscape design" project, distributed this memo at the BAC meeting last week. it does not purport to be bureau policy. what it purports to be is an...
View Articlewhat were they thinking
the couch street portion of the burnside/couch couplet project is essentially completed, and there has already been some negative response from cyclists.couch itself is now one-way west from 14th to...
View Articlewell, well, well
some interesting stuff at tonight's BAC meeting.item one:roger geller asked for input on the current ODoT bike/ped grant cycle. proposals due july 9. up to one million to be awarded on a single...
View Articlepushback
some weeks ago in "so is this a done deal," i described the first of two open houses at which PBoT rolled out its plans for the klickitat bike boulevard, um, neighborhood greenway. the subtext was the...
View Articlesharrows as wayfinders
the device over there on the right, with the silhouette of the bike and the two chevrons, is a "shared lane marking," or more colloquially, a "sharrow."the 2009 manual on uniform traffic control...
View Articleopen letter to the BAC
July 12, 2010Open Letter to the Bicycle Advisory Committee:At the BAC meeting in April, vice chair Robert Pickett gave a report from a subcommittee looking into the committee's policy review process....
View Articlea tally of two intersections
recently i volunteered to count bicyclists at each of four intersections as part of PBoT's annual effort to estimate the number of total bike trips. they are trying to do counts at about 175...
View Articlefirst foray
last friday evening we did this scattermass traffic-calming pedestrian action l. is calling "the human speed bump project." all two of us met outside the star e rose and went inside for a cup of...
View Articlere "move over" blog post
sent the following e-mail message to joe rose last night:joe,i really cannot express how disappointed i was to see this blog...
View Articlethe law of unintended consequences
so i went to this open house a couple of weeks ago for the davis street improvements project. ellen vanderslice was there to explain the storyboards, field questions, and listen to feedback from...
View Articlebecause this sh*t matters
i took the reopened broadway bridge into downtown the other day. they have restriped the last block approaching the bridge from the east, between benton and larrabee, so that the bike lane now hugs the...
View Articleback to the fifties
sat in on this community advisory committee stuff on the fifties bikeway project a couple of weeks ago. a number of neighborhood associations and business associations at the table, but a very bicycle...
View Articleopen note to dan gutierrez
hey, dan, a voice from the past.saw your post on the CABO boards the other day, where you say roger geller told you thus and such to your face at the LAB bike summit three years ago.specifically, you...
View Articledeconstructing joe rose
i sometimes wonder if there is some way to find out how many unique hits joe rose actually gets on his blog, "hard drive," on oregonlive.com.maybe there is only some small handful of people who...
View Articlehead fake in the fifties
the theme of last tuesday's meeting of the citizens advisory committee on the 50s bikeway project was a lowering of expectations.feedback from the open house in january was largely positive, with...
View Articlestray thoughts on williams
[slightly edited from something i posted to the AROW discussion boards the other day]in segments 2 and 5 (that is, from the I-5 onramp to russell, and from skidmore to killingsworth), they are talking...
View Articleopen letter to ellen vanderslice
ellen,i enjoyed talking with you the other day at the open house for the northeast williams traffic safety project. you guys put on a very good presentation, and i think you provided a good opportunity...
View Articlenot there for you
on his blog earlier this week, joe rose (i know, i know, consider the source) gives the briefest possible summary of an interview he recently had with rob sadowsky over an eight dollar...
View Articledown the rabbit hole
word on the street is that the stakeholder advisory committee process for the lloyd district bikeway development projects may be broken.a couple of the freight people have literally walked away from...
View Articlemy thoughts, somewhat exactly
[picking up after an absence of nearly a year. the stakeholders advisory committee for the north williams traffic safety project may finally be nearing a decision.]you have to begin by asking what it...
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