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taking the lane: September 2010

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A project to repeal oregon's far to the right and mandatory sidepath laws. Wednesday, September 15, 2010. The law of unintended consequences. So i went to this open house a couple of weeks ago for the davis street improvements project. Was there to explain the storyboards. Field questions, and listen to feedback from whoever stopped by. I think the larger point the guy was trying to make was that the project has been framed largely in terms of bike traffic. I talked with this guy for a few minutes, and a...

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taking the lane: down the rabbit hole

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A project to repeal oregon's far to the right and mandatory sidepath laws. Thursday, May 19, 2011. Down the rabbit hole. Word on the street is that the stakeholder advisory committee process for the lloyd district bikeway development projects may be broken. A couple of the freight people have literally walked away from the table. And some of the commercial real estate interests are raising eleventh hour objections to stuff that was agreed to months ago. In the plan after all, etc. Here is some data that ...

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taking the lane: April 2011

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A project to repeal oregon's far to the right and mandatory sidepath laws. Monday, April 18, 2011. Open letter to ellen vanderslice. I enjoyed talking with you the other day at the open house for the northeast williams traffic safety project. you guys put on a very good presentation, and i think you provided a good opportunity for meaningful public feedback. If you cannot persuade the merchants to give up onstreet parking, and you choose to yield to them on the issue, then you should give up the second t...

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Thoughts - Active Right of Way

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Active Right of Way. Streetcar & Bikes. Rail Related Bike Crashes in Portland. Cycle Tracks: What About the Intersections? Posted in Advocate's Toolbox. On September 17th, 2013 by Nick – 4 Comments. The following post is about cycle track design, featuring information and details pulled from the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide. Dutch CROW Design Manual for Bicycle Traffic, Ireland’s National Cycling Manual. And David Hembrow’s blog A View From the Cycle Path. No Parking Cycle Tracks. The principle is si...

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taking the lane: subparagraph two

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A project to repeal oregon's far to the right and mandatory sidepath laws. Monday, February 8, 2010. For nearly seven months last year, i engaged in an e-mail exchange with PBoT on the question whether there have ever been any actual public hearings conducted for the purpose of determining that any particular bike lane or sidepath. Anywhere in portland is "suitable for safe bicycle use," so as to escape the exception at ORS 814.420(2) from the mandatory sidepath provision. Of ORS 814.420(1). When i say "...

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taking the lane: November 2010

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A project to repeal oregon's far to the right and mandatory sidepath laws. Wednesday, November 10, 2010. I sometimes wonder if there is some way to find out how many unique hits joe rose actually gets on his blog, "hard drive," on oregonlive.com. Maybe there is only some small handful of people who actually read the thing, and i am wasting my time monitoring the blog to correct misstatements he makes as he constantly stirs the "cars versus bikes" pot. Maybe i should just let it go anyway. Things get tigh...

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taking the lane: not there for you

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A project to repeal oregon's far to the right and mandatory sidepath laws. Monday, May 2, 2011. Not there for you. On his blog earlier this week, joe rose (i know, i know, consider the source. Gives the briefest possible summary. Of an interview he recently had with rob sadowsky over an eight dollar sandwich. Supposedly they talked about "the directions that [sic] the BTA is moving this year," but all we are allowed to hear is that "the word 'integration' was used a lot.". Anyway, the money quote is here:.

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taking the lane: back to the fifties

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A project to repeal oregon's far to the right and mandatory sidepath laws. Saturday, October 16, 2010. Back to the fifties. Sat in on this community advisory committee stuff on the fifties bikeway project. And then the whole what to do about 52nd on south thing. will five-foot lanes be enough? If six, then we have to get rid of parking on one side, but which side? In the end, whatever comes out of this process will be more friendly to cyclists than may float with stakeholders who have not yet been part o...

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taking the lane: stray thoughts on williams

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A project to repeal oregon's far to the right and mandatory sidepath laws. Monday, April 18, 2011. Stray thoughts on williams. Slightly edited from something i posted to the AROW discussion boards the other day]. In segments 2 and 5 (that is, from the I-5 onramp to russell, and from skidmore to killingsworth), they are talking about taking it down to one travel lane, but that lane would be 13 or 14 feet wide. Apparently emergency vehicles need this if there will be only one travel lane. Last tuesday nigh...