Archive for April, 2006
Walk and bike school buses coming to Portland schools
(April 18, 2006)

[Lewis Elementary School.]

On Thursday, April 20, kids throughout Portland will begin walking and biking to and from school in Walk + Bike “School Buses”. Demonstration ‘buses’ will be walking and biking from Lewis Elementary on Thursday, April 20, and walking from Forest Park Elementary on Friday, April 21.
The Walk+ Bike School Bus is being […]

A trucker’s perspective on bicycles on the road
(April 11, 2006)

A few days ago I received an email from a trucker named Jim. He has been making local deliveries in his 34,000 pound truck around N and NE Portland for 13 years. He brought up some constructive points about sharing the road with bicycles that are worth sharing.
“I sense a feeling within the bike […]

Share the road mural coming to Southeast Portland
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There’s a new “Share the Road” mural coming to southeast Portland. Volunteers working as part of a Community Action Project with the Northwest Service Academy have earned a grant through the Community Cycling Center to paint the mural on the wall of the Hawthorne Auto Clinic at 4307 SE Hawthorne Blvd. According to […]