Bicycle Master Plan Comments Supporting North Portland Greenway Trail Needed- DUE 11/8

Posted by: Rfreeman on Nov 07, 2009

 Let the City know that you want to see car free trails given priority in the Bike Master Plan. Comments to Portland Office of Transportation staff are due by November 8th. This is an opportunity for Portland to raise the vision of a safe biking city to one that includes more safe, off street trails for biking and walking.

Email your comments to: bicyclemasterplan@pdxtrans.org 
copy sam.adams@ci.portland.or.us; nick@ci.portland.or.us and rleanoard@ci.portland.or.us
or submit your comments via postal mail:
Ellen Vanderslice, PBP Project Manager
Portland Bureau of Transportation
1120 SW 5TH Avenue, Suite 800
Portland, Oregon 97204
 
Suggested points are below. Be sure to write from your own experience:
 
Move the North Portland Greenway Trail up as a priority for construction in the Bike Master Plan. Now is the time for Portland to take giants steps forward in our vision for safe biking and walking.
 
Portland can best achieve the goal of increasing the number of people who ride bikes with safe, off street, car free trails. The North Portland Willamette Greenway Trail will serve thousands of riders from North Portland and Swan Island to downtown and the eastside by linking up with the Eastbank Esplanade. Safe on street neighborhood connections will add to the number of users.
 
Nearly a half million dollars has been approved for planning for the North Portland Willamette Greenway Trail. Those funds would be wasted if the NPWGT isn’t made a priority for construction funding.
 
More information on the new Bicycle Master Plan is available here.
 
Join us online at:  www.npgreenway.org   
 
 

 

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by bennyboo | Mon, 11/16/2009 - 10:26pm

 

November 16, 2009
Dear Neighbors,
Hi, I’m Ben in 5th grade at Arbor School. My friends and I are doing a project on bottled water. We did a double blind taste test with Aquafina, Dasani, Arbor tap water, Portland tap water, and Evian. Portland tap water won! Dasani came in second. Our conclusion is that local water tastes better because of less time sitting around in the plastic bottle. (Dasani comes from the Willamette river.) Sometimes a chemical called BPA leaches out of plastic and into the water. Evian comes from France so maybe it tasted the worst because it had farthest to travel.
One thing we have learned about is the high transportation costs with bottled water. We learned that a lot of energy is put into bottled water. In 2007 32-54 million barrels of oil was used to produce the amount of bottled water consumed in the U.S. That’s 2,000 times more than tap water. It is used for making the plastic bottles and for transporting them. Evian comes from France. That is 5,138 miles away. Aquafina comes from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. That is 2,762 miles away. Dasani comes from the Willamette, which is much closer, but making the plastic bottles still takes oil.
Right now Oregon requires a 5 cent bottle bill. In 2005, before the bottle bill, Oregon recycled 32.6%. We do not know the answers after because the bottle bill hasn’t been happening for very long, but my guess is that it will not be as high as Michigan. I was wondering if you could help us raise it to 10 cents like Michigan’s bottle bill. They recycle about 95% of their water bottles. Anyway bottled water costs 500 times more than tap. So everyone who drinks bottled water should try tap for a day.
Sincerely,
Ben K.H, Overlook