View Related Episode: Eagle Cap Extreme, Portland Biking, Summer Lake Revisit

Portland boasts more bicycle riders than most U.S. cities so it's no wonder city planners are doing all they can to make the area as bike friendly as possible. Portland traffic and safety engineers are coming up with innovative ways to prevent accidents. Solutions modeled in bike friendly Holland are migrating to Portland. Bike boxes and designated bike routes are just a couple of the ways Portland leads the nation in bike safety.

First Broadcast: 2009

Appeared in episode: Eagle Cap Extreme, Portland Biking, Summer Lake Revisit

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Fertilize a River With Salmon Carcasses
by Vince Patton | 09/01/2010
The scene lives in my memory and my nostrils. A helicopter flies up river carrying a giant silver box beneath it hanging by cables. The blades pound and the chopper skims slowly just above the tops of the fir forest. As it approaches our position, a trap door opens on the box and out pour thousands of [...]
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