How about this in the Merc's blog yesterday afternoon, followed by WW in print this morning and finally Thee O online at noon today.

Gov Ted, is going to top NYC by closing I-5 from from Columbia River Crossing to Salem. We must be first. We're leaders.

I say let the biker close downtown to cars and lets see how it helps us all.

Expected result:
People quit going downtown, so there is no longer a reason for the city to take money from the rest of the city to support the rich downtown landowners.

Thanks
JK

Yeah, and about six months ago on your blog, Jack, I posted this:

Ciclovia: Bogotá, Colombia, by Clarence Eckerson, Jr., December 1, 2007 -- Recently, I had the opportunity to travel with comrades Karla Quintero (Transportation Alternatives) and Aaron Naparstek (Streetsblog) to Bogotá, Colombia to document some of the amazing advances going on in the livable streets movement there. On Sunday we spent the entire day - from 5 AM 'til nearly 5 PM - riding bicycles around the city courtesy of the Ciclovia, a weekly event in which over 70 miles of city streets are closed to traffic where residents come out to walk, bike, run, skate, recreate, picnic, and talk with family, neighbors & strangers...it is simply one of the most moving experiences I have had in my entire life.

And the most of the story is a (Street Films) video, as I thought to best suit the most literacy likes among Bojack wits.

WiWeek maybe should hand over that Pulitzer, too, Jack, in news and form you scoop them all.

For more comprehension of city car shutdowns world wide -- including Jakarta!, go2ogle the findings of some search combination such as 'car free' + 'no traffic' + 'city' + 'south america' + ... you get the idea.

This neighborhood was selected for the no-car zone as a punishment for kicking against the Cesar Chavez / Interstate Ave renaming.
http://www.cesarechavezboulevard.com

Curitiba, Brazil did someting like this long before most others, but when the former mayor of Curitiba, Jaime Lerner, was in town a couple of years ago and spoke of this and their transportation system which is rated as one of the world's best, if not the best, he was widely ignored by the media angels.

Fred Stickle has our best interest at heart you can bet on it.

What percentage of the anti-car (initiative) parade route overlaps with the well-researched bike routes?

I never have been able to understand how someone who is one of the best in their field can be in town and the news media ignore them. I think it is because the "in crowd" doesn't comprehend and so anything outside of it's grasp is dismissed as unimportant. A couple of times, while practising animal law in Portland, I was lucky enough to get some premier witnesses who just didn't register with the the local who's who.

There is a level at which Portland really sucks and drains the life out of genuine innovation.