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BTA ‘embracing a mission that’s bigger than the bike’ | COMMENTARY

Bicycle Transportation Alliance expands focus to include walking, public transit Bicycle Transportation Alliance, a Portland based nonprofit organization, works to improve biking conditions throughout the metropolitan region. For the past 25 years, we hav ...

9 Jun 2016 - Rob Sadowsky
Bicycle Transportation Alliance: Car free, not carefree, in the suburbs

An achievable vision of livable, safe, affordable communities in Portland's suburbs is a necessity The school district reporting the most homeless students in Oregon isn’t Portland Public, Reynolds or Gresham-Barlow. It’s Beaverton. Washington Count ...

27 Aug 2015 - Lisa Frank
Bicycle Transportation Alliance: Transit partnerships can benefit all

Public agency partners and community leaders seek solutions to basic life challenges Transportation, getting from point A to point B, is a simple part of people’s daily lives, yet it has a complex impact on our communities, physical health and family budg ...

20 Aug 2015 - Gerik Kransky
Bicycle Transportation Alliance: Transform Portland neighborhoods to combat disparities

20-minute neighborhoods can be revolutionary if they work for everyone The soon-to-be updated Portland Consolidated Plan calls for the implementation of 20-minute neighborhoods. The 20-minute neighborhood, in theory, is a place where people can reach most ...

13 Aug 2015 - Rob Sadowsky
Street Roots For the record: October 11-24, 2013

•Nearly 25,000 African immigrants and refugees live in Oregon: Source, Coalition of Communities of Color •About 24 percent of the Portland Metropolitan Region was made up of youth ages 0-17. Nearly 11 percent were residents 65 years of age and older. •Thr ...

21 Oct 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Dear City Council: A prescription for healthy streets

By Rob Sadowsky, Contributing Columnist The following is the second in a two-part article. This first part outlined a set of guiding principles for Healthy Streets and was published here. This piece offers specific implementation solutions. Now that the s ...

11 Feb 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Dear City Council: A prescription for healthy streets

Dear City Council: A prescription for healthy streets By Rob Sadowsky, Contributing Columnist I write this letter to the Portland City Council as it seats two new members: Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Steve Novick. As you sit down over the next fe ...

29 Nov 2012 - Street Roots
BTA: Beyond the presidential race, your vote can change Oregon

BTA: Beyond the presidential race, your vote can change Oregon By Rob Sadowsky, Contributing Columnist First, I’d like to pause and say goodbye to Margaux Mennesson. Margaux has served as The Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s Communications Director for t ...

8 Oct 2012 - Street Roots
Portland’s famous free rail zones — going, going, gone

Portland’s famous free rail zones — going, going, gone By Rob Sadowsky, Contributing Columnist In just a few short weeks, the Portland’s free rail zone for both TriMet light rail and the streetcar will end its more than 37 year history. The concept was ad ...

14 Aug 2012 - Street Roots
BTA ambassadors become roll models for young riders

BTA ambassadors become roll models for young riders By Margaux Mennesson, Contributing Writer “I want to have your job when I grow up.” When the Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s Bike Safety Education instructors hear remarks like this from kids they’re t ...

31 Jul 2012 - Street Roots