Useful Phone Numbers (541)
- Maintenance Hotlines
For use when debris hinders the bike lane or path (leaves, broken glass, potholes, etc.)
- 682-4800 - Eugene
726-3761 - Springfield
744-8080 - ODOT
682-6900 - Lane Co.
Online Reporting - Eug
- Eugene Parking Services
For use when a car is parked in the bike lane during business hours.
- 682-5729 - Eugene
- Police Non-Emergency Number
For use if the above numbers don't work.
- 682-5111 - Eugene
726-3714 - Springfield
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By Mike Seager (Editor), on January 27th, 2011
What’s a title without a little hyperbole? Boring, I say!
I interned in the legislature and in Peter DeFazio’s Eugene District Office, not to mention being President of the UO Transportation and Livability group LiveMove and the Vice President of GEARs. I have a lot of experience as an [More ...]
By Mike Seager (Editor), on January 22nd, 2011
The parade this morning was a lot of fun, and there was a great turnout from Eugene Safe Routes to School, GEARs, The UO Bike Program, Kidical Mass, Burley, and probably a slew of other groups that I didn’t realize were there. There were so many kids under 6 on bikes that Rep. Greenlick would [More ...]
By Mike Seager (Editor), on January 20th, 2011
In case you haven’t heard, there is a sweet parade going on this Saturday to celebrate the Ducks’ historic season. Local cyclists have created an entry in the parade called “Eugene’s Bicycling Champions” to celebrate Eugene’s recent Gold rating by the League of American Bicyclists, and to showcase our march towards Platinum. There are also [More ...]
By Mike Seager (Editor), on January 19th, 2011
I’d like to repost a recent Register-Guard letter to the editor that made me smile. It’s all to easy to focus on conflict and differences, but Karen Lally’s letter illustrates well that we are all in this together.
Small kindness has big effect
I was biking hard to work recently when I noticed a driver had [More ...]
By Mike Seager (Editor), on January 17th, 2011
Quoted from KVAL.com
Source: KVAL.com
EUGENE, Ore. – Work to replace a water main installed under downtown Eugene streets in the 1930s begins Tuesday and is expected to last six weeks.
The work will disrupt traffic at Pearl Street, Eighth Avenue and East Broadway.
Most of the work will happen between 8 a.m. and 4 [More ...]
By Mike Seager (Editor), on January 17th, 2011
As usual, the City of Eugene InMotion Newsletter is full of information this month, including links to a very important public comment process. I quote: (emphasis mine)
Public Comment sought for Proposed Eugene Off-Street Path Projects
The federally-funded Transportation Enhancement program has historically funded many off-street path projects in Eugene. In the current round of funding, [More ...]
By Mike Seager (Editor), on January 13th, 2011
One of my favorite pictures from EugeneBicyclist.com – this 20-month-old seems perfectly safe to me.
I hesitate to post another story so soon after Shane posted such an important story about upcoming construction, but this story has blown up all over the interpipes tonight – and it should. Mitch Greenlick, a Portland Democrat who represents [More ...]
By Mike Seager (Editor), on January 9th, 2011
The New (very nice) Concrete Patch
On December 8th, I reported that a NW Natural work crew had left an unmarked steel plate in the high-speed downhill bike lane at Fox Hollow and 46th. The following day they finished work and replaced the dangerous steel plate with an asphalt patch. The crew did not bother [More ...]
By Mike Seager (Editor), on January 6th, 2011
Wha? Outside Voodoo Doughnuts
Today (tonight, really), we are going to be talking about the downtown meter rings currently being installed to replace bike parking lost back in October when the the parking meter heads were removed from the new downtown free car parking zone. This has previously been covered by WeBikeEugene here and [More ...]
By Mike Seager (Editor), on December 29th, 2010
Hey Folks. WBE is now on a new server, and boy did it take me a long time to get the WordPress migration to work. As of now, all links and site functions should work. Part of the database migration put weird “” everywhere, but as far as I can tell that’s the worst of [More ...]
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