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If you are interested in starting a bike train at your school and want your route listed email biketrainpdx@gmail.com
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Australia Bike Bus
Always fun to read about bike trains around the world. Here is a little article about a “bike bus” in Sydney Australia. The riders use a separated cycle track for the entire route. That would be cool… They even got the mayor to join them for a day. Bring back the bike article
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Bike Train Facebook page up!
I just created a bike train facebook page (which you can now join on using the tab on the right hand side of this site or by going here. I’m hoping to put everything I put on this site on the facebook page as well. My hope is to try to reach as many people [...]
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Alice Award Winners
I am very fortunate and humbled to be named an Alice Award recipient along with Mia Birk, Steph Routh, and Standing Stone Brewing Company. The BTA decided to give me this award for my bike infrastructure advocacy work but most importantly for the success of the bike trains. This award really goes out to all [...]
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Homemade Portland Village School Bike Train Flag
sweet flag for the Columbia route of the Portland Village School Bike Train.
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Bike Train Interview On Bike Commuter Website
Check out this article and interview on the bike commuter website.
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Virginia Bike Train Pushes For Increased Ped/Bike Infrastructure Funding
One of the often overlooked benefits of bike trains is that they create a organized group of concerned community members that are able to promote more bike/ped funding. They can go to meetings and write letters. This last year we saw this happen in Portland with the passage of the 2.3 million dollar “Going to [...]
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Parkersberg California hosts bike rodeo
The warm temperatures and sunshine provided the perfect backdrop for Jefferson Elementary students to go biking at the school’s bicycle rodeo Thursday afternoon. About 100 students received free helmets, safety vests, and bike locks. Organizers said they ran out of helmets so kids who were there and didn’t receive one, will get a helmet soon. [...]
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March Kidical Mass Ride!
Today was the March Kidical Mass Ride. We started at Rigler school (which has an awesome community garden). Were we were greeted by a special guest, Strechy the clown, who came out to send us off. Then we were to Harvey Scott were we ate some cookies I made (they were gone in a few [...]
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Along The Sabin Bike Train This Morning
Sabin Bike Train leader Bill sent me this photo this morning.
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Beverly Cleary Aiming to Take Golden Bike From Sabin