Tag: federal government

February 6, 2012

Bike Portland: Blumenauer sees House anti-transit, biking and walking bill as test

“This is chance to prove that the [bike] movement is real,” bike-friendly US House legislator from Oregon Earl Blumenauer told Bike Portland as GOP lawmakers push a much-maligned transportation bill through the US House (including Dave Reichert of Washington’s 8th District, covering much of King and Pierce Counties including most of the Eastside). Changes currently…
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tagged: bike portland, earl blumenauer, federal government
May 9, 2011

You have to ride to work this week to get counted

This week is not the week to take a break from bike commuting. SDOT is conducting their bicycle and pedestrian counts May 10-12, according to the SDOT Blog. So if you want to get counted, you gotta ride! From SDOT: SDOT will be conducting pedestrian and bicycle volume counts at more than 50 locations across…
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tagged: bicycle count, bike benefits, bike month 2011, bikenomics, commuting, earl blumenauer, elly blue, federal government, grist
April 25, 2011

Bikenomics: I spend more money on the military than on my bicycle

I have a terrible, dirty little secret. Even though I depend on my bicycle as my primary means of transportation and spend my days writing about bicycles on this blog, I spend more money on war than on my bike. A lot more. In Elly Blue’s latest “bikenomics” column for Grist, she linked to this…
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tagged: bikenomics, elly blue, federal government, taxes, war, wheredidmytaxdollarsgo