A little Christmas Cargo Bike Humor...

tip 'o the hat to Clever Cycles and Yehuda Moon.

Update on RFF Comments

Michelle has posted a great story over at the Bicycle Transportation Alliance blog about your overwhelming support in Metro's recent Regional Flexible Funding process. THANK YOU! We have great hope that the decision will come in favor of the Willamette River Greenway Feasibility Study.

Support for bike/ped trails dominates Metro process

Posted by: Michelle
Dec 11 2008, 5:36 pm

For the last two months we've been asking you to let Metro know if you support more funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects in this region, and to tell them which projects in particular you want to see.

Well, you sure responded! Comments in support of bike and ped projects dominated in the recent Regional Flexible Fund (RFF) process. Thank you for your help!

Of the 797 comments received, 553 of them (about 69%) were in support of bike, pedestrian and trail projects.

The individual projects that received the most support were overwhelming active transportation projects: the Willamette Greenway Trail (with 214 in support) [...]

Click here for the entire story.

Testify at Planning Commission tonight

Testify at Planning Commission tonight
The River Plan is headed to the Planning Commission tonight. This is an opportunity for you to come and show your support for a multi-use path connecting St Johns with downtown.

BikePortland.org posted a great article this afternoon summarizing whats going on. If you have time tonight, we'd love to see you there!

Willamette Greenway Trail heads to Planning Commission

Posted by Jonathan Maus (Editor) on December 9th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

Metro trail planner Mel Huie and
npGreenway core member Pam
Arden at a 2007 meeting.
(Photo © J. Maus)

Tonight, the Portland Planning Commission — a nine-member body appointed by the Mayor that advises the city on all planning issues — will hold a public hearing for the “North Reach” phase of Portland’s River Plan.

The River Plan is a massive planning project for all land along the Willamette River in Portland.

Buried among the many volumes and reams of pages in the North Reach section of the plan is language that would help establish easements and official policy for the northern section of the Willamette River Greenway Trail (which currently ends at the Steel Bridge).

[click here to see the entire article on bikeportland.org...]

Shoreline at Bluff around the University of Portland

Shoreline at Bluff around the University of Portland
Originally uploaded by npGREENWAY

This image does a good job of showing "the lay of the land" where the trail would need to go around the foot of the bluff at the University of Portland.

Read the caption on the flicker page for more information.