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Jobs of the Week [BikePortland]

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 02:44 AM CDT

If you're looking for a job, two great opportunities have been listed on the BikePortland Job Listings this past week. Here's the information: Management Trainee — Bike...

Portland bike traffic up 28% over last year [BikePortland]

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 05:52 PM CDT

Bike traffic in Portland.(Photo © J. Maus) The City of Portland is sitting on loads of interesting and important data about bike ridership. Full reports on summer bike counts at locations throughout...

Actor/advocate Matthew Modine will narrate Portland bike documentary [BikePortland]

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 05:20 PM CDT

Actor Matthew Modine will narrate Veer, a documentary about bike culture in Portland.(Photo © Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage.com) The creators of Veer, a feature-length documentary film that...

Gladstone teen dies from injuries sustained in McLoughlin Blvd. collision [BikePortland]

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 05:07 PM CDT

The intersection of Glen Echo and 99E/McLoughlin.Google Map A 17-year-old boy passed away yesterday morning due to injuries he sustained in a collision with a car on Highway 99E/McLoughlin Blvd. in...

San Joaquin Valley Doing &#8220;About Half&#8221; of What They Can for Smart Growth [Streetsblog LA]

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 04:16 PM CDT

A Drive Up Highway 99 Shows Some Signs of Smart Growth Via Carfree USA: An exhaustive two year survey by the Modesto Bee in cooperation with the Great Valley Center and a class of California State...

Transit Blamed for Suburban St. Louis Crime [Streetsblog LA]

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:39 PM CDT

Last week Freakonomics picked up a story from the Riverfront Times that connects an uptick in shoplifting, fighting and other crimes in the St. Louis suburbs to a two-year-old expansion of the...

Bike thieves, interrupted [BikePortland]

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 02:07 PM CDT

Here are two tales of bike thefts that didn't go quite as planned. The first, sent in by a reader named Armando, comes from an all-too familiar spot — the loggia of the Portland Building....

LA Cyclist Wants Your Help to Make New Bike Map for LA [Streetsblog LA]

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 01:58 PM CDT

Timur, a relatively new blogger at LA Bike Rides, is looking for your help to build a new bike map for Los Angeles.  Using Google's map making program to design a bike map isn't a new idea, the...

Keeping kids warm and dry on the bike [BikePortland]

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 01:32 PM CDT

Marion Rice and daughter Gleneden This article was written by our Family Biking columnist Marion Rice. For previous articles in this series, and for links to other articles and photos on family...

Tonight (or online): Tell Metro where to spend $28 million in federal funds [BikePortland]

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 12:26 PM CDT

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...

Texas Governor Rick Perry Celebrates 18 Lanes of "Freedom" [Streetsblog LA"Freedom"]

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 11:53 AM CDT

Texas officials this week marked the opening of new lanes on the Katy Freeway, a stretch of Interstate 10 that runs 40 miles west from downtown Houston. The state has added 20 miles of interior...

Today&#8217;s Headlines [Streetsblog LA]

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 11:50 AM CDT

No on R (Daily Bulletin, Antelope Valley Press via Bottleneck Blog) Molina, Katz Debate Measure R (My Fox LA)  Measure R's Fate in the Hands of Suburbanites (LA Weekly) Boxer Urges More Funds...

New Plan for Official U.S. Bicycle Route System Approved by National Transportation Authority [Bike Pittsburgh]

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 09:54 AM CDT

Released October 28, 2008 by Adventure Cycling Association Missoula, Montana —The United States is on a path to creating what could become the largest official bicycle route network in the world,...

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