Tag: lessons from bikestravaganza

August 18, 2010

Lessons from Bikestravaganza, Part 2: Bike Business

Bikestravaganza rolled into Seattle Saturday and sparked some interesting conversations. Here is part two of our series about ideas taken from the night. When Portland announced it was looking for a couple businesses to turn the parking spots in front of their storefronts into bike corrals, people scoffed. Now, after the projects have proven to…
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August 16, 2010

Lessons from Bikestravaganza, Part 1: $65 million = World class bike city or 1 mile of freeway

Bikestravaganza rolled into town Saturday evening for a chat at Ada’s Technical Books on Capitol Hill for a night of presentations, zines and discussions about bikes. Hailing from Portland, Joe Biel (filmmaker and founder of Microcosm Publishing) and Elly Blue (activist, organizer and former BikePortland.org editor) are touring the country with a zine library, a…
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