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Families fed up with fueling up enter Drive Less Family Challenge

The family that reduces the most miles wins the grand prize: a Samsung Mondi and 6 months of CLEAR Mobile Internet, plus a $300 stay at Inn at Spanish Head on the Oregon coast. To learn more about the challenge, visit http://drivelesssavemore.com/. Here are the families competin… Continue

Added by Ryan Newhouse on October 14, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Bike vs. bulbout article in Missoulian

In case you missed this article on a bulbout-related bike crash, here it is. Continue

Added by Ryan Newhouse on October 8, 2009 at 3:21pm — No Comments

Missoula Third-Grader Makes a Difference on Mullan Road

View Larger Map In case you missed the Sept. 26th story, the Missoulian ran a great article about Elli Giammona, a… Continue

Added by Ryan Newhouse on September 29, 2009 at 12:09pm — No Comments

Happy Worldwide Carfree Day!

September 22nd is recognized as Worldwide Carfree Day! It is an annual event marked by gatherings, demonstrations, parades and events worldwide. To learn more about this event, please see this page. Continue

Added by Ryan Newhouse on September 22, 2009 at 3:35pm — No Comments

PEDal Festival This Weekend!

Missoula's 2nd annual PEDal Festival is set to kick off this Saturday September 19th at Caras Park. The event will start with a costume parade at 11:00 AM, beginning and ending at Caras Park. The event will feature local food, drinks and music, as well as fun games and demonstrations (like th… Continue

Added by Ryan Newhouse on September 16, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Roundabout Nearly Ready

According to the latest City of Missoula… Continue

Added by Ryan Newhouse on August 28, 2009 at 9:48am — No Comments

Bulbouts in Missoula

A lot of Missoulians are talking about the new… Continue

Added by Ryan Newhouse on August 21, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Record Ridership on Mountain Line

Record Ridership on Mountain Line July 2008 through June 2009 Once again, Missoulians helped Mountain Line to beat last year’s ridership record. Between July 2008 and June 2009, Mountain Line carried a record 828,887 on its regular fixed route buses, a 4% increase over fixed route ridership the previous year. In addition, Mountain Line provided 20,164 rides on its Paratransit and Senior Van services, compared to 16,000 paratransit rides the previous year. Total ridership in FY09 was 849,051 c… Continue

Added by Stephanie Millar on July 30, 2009 at 11:20am — No Comments

Transportation in local news --

Here are 3 recent Missoulian stories about local transportation changes. MIM would like to hear your thoughts... Bike Lanes on Higgins - what do you think? rattlesnake drive speed limit traffic safety Continue

Added by Alex Stokman on July 28, 2009 at 11:50am — No Comments

The Bicycle Lifestyle Guide

Designed by Cyclists Inciting Change through Live Exchange (CICLE), this booklet provides many cycling interesting tips and ideas to "Get you inspired – to give you a glimpse of just how cool life on a bicycle can be". bicycle-lifestyle-guide?mode=embed&layout=http://ski… Continue

Added by Marcus Frost on July 17, 2009 at 12:04pm — No Comments

Higgins-Hill-Beckwith roundabout construction detours Mountain Line's Route 6

The detour will begin on Monday, June 15th. See graphic below for new route. For more information call Mountain Line at 721-3333.

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Added by Chase Jones on June 11, 2009 at 3:14pm — No Comments

New Bus Benches Encourage New Perspective

The first of the new bus benches were installed today. Check them out:

Van Buren and Broadway

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Added by Chase Jones on May 29, 2009 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Commuter Challenge Winners and Totals Announced

Congrats to this year's Commuter Challenge winners: 1-10 Employees - (Co-Winners)The Biomimicry Institute, Clark ForkCoalition,homeWORD, Montana Campus Compact, Morales Law Office, SunburstSensors, Wild Rockies Field Institute and Women's Voices for the Earth 11-25 Employees - (C0-Winners)Ecology Project International and MMWArchitects 26-50 Employees - REI Missoula 51-100 Employees - Garlington, Lohn and Robinson 100+ Employees - The Good Food Store Than… Continue

Added by Chase Jones on May 29, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Missoula Ride of Silence 2009

I would like to thank the 18 bicyclists who participated in the 2nd annual Missoula Ride of Silence. We assembled at Caras Park, Wed. 5/20/09 at 7:00 pm under pleasant weather conditions and biked a route from Caras Park to Front St, Higgins Ave, South 3rd, Reserve St, Broadway, Front and back to Caras Park. Everyone from the 10 year old to the 65 year old enjoyed the one hour ride in honor of those cyclists who have been killed or injured in motor vehicle vs bicycle crashes. We exhibited the ab… Continue

Added by Bob Wachtel on May 21, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Sorry about the uninvited guest

Members It has come to my attention that you all received an unwanted message from an uninvited member. I am sorry for any offensive content and sorry for this issue. I have banned the member and all content is deleted. I am looking into ways to stop this from happening completely. Please accept our apologies for the post. Sincerely. Chase Continue

Added by Chase Jones on May 21, 2009 at 11:31am — 1 Comment

Get On Board during Bike Walk Bus Week

MOBASH AND "Get On Board" from Orange St.

The "Get On Board" Event at MOBASH skatepark served not only as a party to thank Missoula area high school students for participating in Bike Walk Bus Week but also recognize skate boarding as a great form of sustainable transportatio… Continue

Added by Chase Jones on May 1, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Missoula In Motion, Free Cycles and Mountain Line turn Bus Shelter to Bike Parking with people and pedal power

The COMMOTION Program, in a team effort with Free Cycles and Mountain Line, was proud to embark on a pedal powered effort during Bike Walk Bus Week to install covered bike parking at Hellgate High School. Here's the skinny: On Wednesday, the covered bus stop at the intersecti… Continue

Added by Chase Jones on April 30, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Missoula's First On-Street Bike Parking

What is a bike corral? Well, it's ONE on-street car parking spot that is retro-fitted to park TWELVE bikes!...and Missoula got it's first on Tuesday, April 28th. It adds needed bike parking inventory to downtown and opens up the sidewalk to pedestrian activity and outdoor… Continue

Added by Chase Jones on April 30, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Breakfast On The Bridges

This morning was a blast. We had so many folks stop by that we ran out of bagels and coffee on three of the four bridges! Special thanks to volunteers Ben Weiss and Byron Dike. Also thanks for Ryan Newhouse/REI and the Bike Doctor for the use of tents. We hope to do this more frequentl… Continue

Added by Chase Jones on April 27, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Help Support ASUM Bus Services, Call for Kaimin Letters-to-the-Editor

I'm making the assumption here that many MIM members are also students at the university. Its that time again for ASUM elections and that means that students also get the opportunity to approve programs and fees being requested from varies student groups. ASUM Transportation is planning on continuing to expand bus services in our community to keep up with the demand growth for the service. The bus service has grown immensely in the last several years, from a single bus at the start the bus syst… Continue

Added by Lewis on March 25, 2009 at 9:41am — No Comments