• Posts Tagged ‘bicycle transportation alliance’

    Rules for Livable Street Radicals

    by  • March 5, 2013 • Columbia River Crossing, Hart, Rebel Cities, Rebel Portland, Sustainable Cities • 0 Comments

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    Reflecting on the post-legislative failure to stop Salem from voting to approve $450 million dollars in bonds for the Columbia River Crossing, I’m feeling mildly disheartened.  Despite some incredible work on the part of individual activists and a handful of lesser known nonprofit & neighborhood groups, the Oregon state senate voted Monday 18-11 in...

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    Slaughter the Freeways: A Radical Livable Streets Movement

    by  • December 2, 2012 • Columbia River Crossing, Hart, Rebel Cities, Rebel Portland, Sustainable Cities • 4 Comments

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    Where Are the Slayers of the Mt. Hood Freeway Today? In the 1960s in Portland, Oregon the proposed Mt Hood Freeway was a done deal. By 1972 the plan for the freeway had perished. In 1967 the city proposed making the Harbor Drive highway even wider. Several years later that highway was ripped from...

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