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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
BTA: To build support for bicycling, you need to tell a good story

BTA: To build support for bicycling, you need to tell a good story By Margaux Mennesson, Contributing Writer Lenny Anderson has been working and riding his bike on and around Swan Island for over 20 years. He recently retired from his position as director ...

12 Sep 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
BTA: Community planning process needs balance of social justice

BTA: Community planning process needs balance of social justice By Rob Sadowsky, Contributing Columnist Most cities do not enter into a comprehensive community decision-making process to install transportation projects. Projects are designed and built wit ...

19 Jun 2012 - Street Roots
BTA: The winter of our studded-tire discontent continues

BTA: The winter of our studded-tire discontent continues By Rob Sadowsky, Contributing Columnist Every time I hear the sound of a car bearing studded tires, I cringe. Part of it is the sound for me, and part of it is the wonder of why. Why use them? There ...

26 Mar 2012 - Street Roots
BTA: Transportation equity? Bring it on

BTA: Transportation equity? Bring it on By Rob Sadowsky, Contributing Columnist Metro, our region’s elected government charged with helping us make the region an extraordinary place to live, work and play, recently had a bit of a kerfuffle at a recent sub ...

5 Jan 2012 - Street Roots
PBOT budget shortfall puts infrastructure, safety at risk

PBOT budget shortfall puts infrastructure, safety at risk By Margaux Mennesson Crumbling bridges. Unfilled potholes. Restricted emergency vehicle access. Bike lanes filled with debris. Sidewalks in disrepair. These are some of the conditions we can expec ...

7 Dec 2011 - Street Roots
BTA: Finding philosophers and storytellers in the back of the bus

BTA: Finding philosophers and storytellers in the back of the bus By Rob Sadowsky, Contributing Columnist This is part two of a story “One bad accident puts healthy streets in a whole new light” that first appeared in Street Roots in July about Rob’s expe ...

3 Nov 2011 - Street Roots