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Joe Cortright: Death of CRC Signals the End of “Highway Dinosaur Era”

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 10, 2013 | No Comments

Last month the Portland mega-highway bridge project known as the Columbia River Crossing died unceremoniously on the floor of the Washington statehouse. But there was some question among project opponents about whether to consider it a victory for smart transportation policy. After all, suburban Republicans opposed to the inclusion of light rail were ultimately the straw […]

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Portland Adds Nation’s First Bike Counter to Hawthorne Bridge

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 9, 2012 | No Comments

Good news for mathematicians who love watching throngs of cyclists stream by: Portland, Oregon just became the first U.S. city to install a bicycle counter! You’ll find the digital “bicycling barometer” on the AM inbound side of the Hawthorne Bridge. It was made possible by the non-profit group Cycle Oregon, which purchased the machine with […]

How Bikes Make Portland Cool

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 19, 2012 | 18 Comments

A mini-documentary out of Portland, Oregon showcases the vibrant bicycle culture the city enjoys, from “bike trains” of kids riding to school on traffic-calmed bike boulevards to a range of everyday people getting around by bike simply because it’s “accessible.” As San Francisco strives to be the most bike-friendly city on the west coast, we can […]

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Google Shows That When Transit Agencies Free Their Data, Riders Win

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 10, 2011 | No Comments

Earlier this week, in a forum about intelligent cities and the ways data can improve urban planning, Carolyn Young of Portland’s TriMet let it slip that Portland was one of the first cities to share its real-time transit tracking data on Google Maps. (Google announced the news two days later.) For transit agencies, letting Google […]

Bicycling Up 8.5 Percent in SF Last Year, 53 Percent Increase from 2006

By Michael Rhodes | Jan 22, 2010 | 12 Comments

San Francisco Citywide Bicycle Counts (2006-09). Image courtesy SFMTA. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has released its 2009 Bicycle Count Report (PDF), which shows an 8.5 percent increase in the number of cyclists on the streets last year compared to 2008, and a 53 percent increase since 2006. That marks the third consecutive year […]

Eyes on the Street: San Francisco’s First Green Bike Box Remains Unfinished

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 22, 2009 | 21 Comments

A truck driver encroaches on a bicyclist in the green bike box. Photos by Bryan Goebel. San Francisco’s first green bike box, painted by a smiling group of electeds and bike activists earlier this month, was heralded as an important first step toward finally advancing some "innovative design treatments" in the city’s long-stalled Bicycle Plan. […]

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