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Bike no-brainer: bike valet parking at PGE Park

July 30th, 2007 · No Comments

There’s a post today on the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) blog suggesting bike valet parking at PGE Park.
A couple years ago this very idea came up at BikePortland.org. And festivals and events around town have been providing valet bike parking for years; why not a permanent facility at PGE Park and the Rose [...]

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Tags: Bicycle · CarFree · Portland · Transit

The Overhead Wire in Portland

July 29th, 2007 · No Comments

The author of The Overhead Wire, a blog dedicated to “sending up transit and TOD with a little unconventional wisdom”, is visiting Portland for a streetcar workshop, and has posted some great streetcar, tram, and Oregon Brewers Festival photos interspersed with commentary.
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Tags: Beer · Blog · CarFree · Festival · Portland · Transit

The Stranger: Portland Gets It

July 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Portland’s bike-friendly culture gets some love in the Portland Mercury’s big-sister weekly The Stranger. Erica C. Barnett writes in the paper’s blog (which for some reason they call SLOG):

In Seattle, when a bike lane threatened to take out a few feet of road that could otherwise be used by cars, businesses put pressure on [...]

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Tags: Bicycle · CarFree · Cascadia · Portland · Transit

Find your neighborhood’s Walk Score

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Enter your address and press GO at Walkscore.com and you are presented with a Google map mashup showing you all the local walkable grocery stores, restaurants, bars, schools, libraries, etc. You also get a “walk score”. On a scale of 0-100, the walk score gives you a general idea of how walkable your [...]

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Tags: CarFree · Mississippi Ave. · Transit

TriMet by text message

July 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Chris Smith at Portland Transport has created an interface to get TriMet TransitTracker arrival times via mobile phone text message. For slow texters like me, using this tool might not be any faster than calling 238-Ride, but it doesn’t hurt to have options.
It’s very simple to use, as he explains:
To get arrival times send [...]

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Portland Streetcar schedule on your iPhone

July 12th, 2007 · No Comments

You probably already know about Nextbus for real-time Portland Streetcar arrival information.
But do you know about MuniTime? For the iPhone?
The Portland Streetcar is one of the first two transit agencies available. To access it, bookmark this URL on your iPhone: http://pdx.munitime.com
(If the iPhone has such a great web browser, I’m not sure why [...]

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