As City’s grow, it is sometimes necessary to spread into adjacent rural areas. In Oregon, the Urban Growth Boundaries slow this process and help ensure city’s can grow up before they need to grow out into vital farmland and forestland. We were able to see one area that is rapidly Read more…
Driebergen-Zeist Mobility Hub Today we took buses, bikes and trains to go visit the new mobility hub that opened at the Driebergen-Zeist train station. These two small towns are located just outside of Utrecht. The total distance is just under 7 miles between Copenhagen Centraal Train Station and the Driebergen-Zeist Read more…
Understanding Utrecht Well this is a pretty big town – about 370,000 or so as of last year (710,000 in their overall urban area, which includes “suburbs”) – they surpassed Bend’s 100,000 population way back in 1900. So they have grown fairly slowly over the years. It’s been around since Read more…
People riding in the Bend 4th of July Freedom ride. Why do they ride every year? It is really fun! Let’s remember that – people do things that are enjoyable.
I could not say it any better – so I am going to cheat with this blog post. I wholeheartedly agree with these words from Robert Spurlock, another Scan Design Fellow who just returned home to Portland, Oregon after spending time in Denmark and experiencing what the Danish get to Read more…
Regional Transportation Planner for the City Region of Arnhem and Nijmegen, Netherlands, Sorjs Van Duren (his first name sounds kind of like George if that helps!) gave us a few lessons – his key wish for us to know: our community is same as your community language matters regional traffic Read more…
The rights here in Odense are different than in Copenhagen. Here most are protected. City Transportation Planner Connie Juel Clausen explained that they have been working on safety as well as capacity increases. The protected right turn for bike riders vastly improves commute times because in Denmark there are no Read more…
Odense Odense is a smaller community than Copenhagen, with just about 180,000 people. Pretty close to the population projected for Bend around the year 2040. We met with City Planner, Connie Juel Clausen. She has spent much of her career working on transportation planning in Odense (25 years!). She wrote Read more…
We met with Connie Juel Clausen, one of the City’s transportation planners. She gave us some good advice that they have learned over the last 10 years. create more connected and protected routes – make riding a bike as easy and comfortable as driving (door to door) remove barriers across Read more…