Something something we need to prioritize cars for seniors to get around.

Opinion: Vote yes on Fixing Our Streets

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- By BikeLoud PDX Board Chair Aaron Kuehn and Oregon Walks Executive Director Zachary Lauritzen

We have a crisis of roadway deaths in this country—and today we’re taking a major step toward addressing this with our new rule on automatic emergency braking.

2024 is the year of the protected sidewalk.

Jason DeBolt ⚡️ Walter Isaacson Sam Balto bike bus teaches independence- and maybe how to take safe risk- building future innovators and self reliance in the process

Kids taking the bike bus to school.
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The state of public safety in America is rocks. That is what we are asking for.

When we say good city planning can be low-tech, we mean rocks

Weird to me that KATU News has to frame the bike bus as 'exercise, sustainability ride' instead of just kids getting to school. Wonder what they'd call kids being driven to school in a car... a 'sedentary, earth-killing ride'??

The motonormativity research crowdfunded by Cycling Professor 🚲  and I is storming ahead. 55.6% funded after just a few days!
Could it be we do this ahead of target? Can you help? Full details here: whydonate.com/en/fundraising…

IN MY BIKE BUS ERA

“Nearly 50 percent of American school-age children walked or biked to school in the late 1960s. In 2009, only 13 percent did.”

The Bike Bus movement, led in large part by Sam Balto/Bike Bus World has helped countless children and families bike to school safely and joyfully 👏❤️

Want Your Kids To Jump Out Of Bed To Get To School? Put Them On The Bike Bus.

“You know what’s more important than traffic enforcement? Designing your landscape to be welcoming, convenient, and safe to cyclists.”
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Why doesn’t the “TCP” the Portland Traffic Calming Program if it still exists? Portland Bureau of Transportation

I saw what happened with Hopkins in Berkeley and I'mma tell you guys right now: you better fight back hard. You give them an inch they're going to take a mile. No cars on West Portal, period. Take this serious and dont give an inch. A whole family wiped out.

When I worked at USDOT, I used to regularly have meetings with school districts that built their schools like this only to realize they couldn't possibly afford to bus their students to their new school.

It was great to welcome Robin Ye for Portland at our Lent #BikeBus on Earth Day. Listen to what we can do to ensure all of our kids have safe, accessible--and fun--ways to get to school! #EarthDay2024

We speak to Momentum Mag about the rise of the bike bus and school street:

'The future of cities belongs to their children, and this new movement might just be a vital tipping point where they are finally considered and involved in the planning process.'

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The first sunny Shawlands #bikebus of the year? (Maybe not, but always nice when the sun makes an appearance!) Anyway, we’re bike bussing today for safer cycling tomorrow! #SafeStreetsForAll

Rain 🌧️ is no deterrent for families in Odell. They show up for Earth 🌎 Day walk and roll to school.

Thanks to a $25,000 grant from GHSA and National Road Safety Foundation, these families will have a demonstration Puma 🐾 Path to school from August to October!