What's it really like to ride with Rex? Late last summer, we decided to find out. So we grabbed a camera, strapped a lawn chair to the back of bicycle cargo trailer, and spent an afternoon tooling around with our favorite candidate for Metro President.
The result is "A Ride with Rex," a documentary to be released in seven 3-4 minute episodes (this is the first). It's an honest look at a man who's spent his entire public life making a difference.
What's it really like to ride with Rex? Late last summer, we decided to find out. So we grabbed a camera, strapped a lawn chair to the back of bicycle cargo trailer, and spent an afternoon tooling around with our favorite candidate for Metro President.
The result is "A Ride with Rex," a documentary to be released in seven 3-4 minute episodes (this is the first). It's an honest look at a man who's spent his entire public life making a difference.
What's it really like to ride with Rex? Late last summer, we decided to find out. In this second leg of the ride, on his way from the Rose Quarter to the Steel Bridge, Rex talks about what it takes to be a successful Metro President, the ingenuity of the Esplanade project, and what it was like to be one of just 15 bikers traversing Portland's bridges.
"I feel very much the duty and responsibility to make sure that every penny we spend is spent wisely…
What's it really like to ride with Rex? Late last summer, we decided to find out.
In this third leg of the ride, Rex zips up SW Broadway to Portland State University, his alma mater, and talks about the challenge of climate change -- and his strategy to make it an opportunity to create jobs and ensure the health and well-being of future generations.
What's it really like to ride with Rex? Last summer, we decided to find out.
This episode is all about bridges: fixing, improving, and building them. First, Rex crosses over the Hawthorne Bridge on the widened sidewalk that marks his first public policy victory, soon after he helped found the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. On the way back north, Rex shows a keen eye for how the natural world is woven into the Esplanade, and talks about the bridges…
As he heads north to the school he help start, Rex talks about how effective Metro has been over the last eight years he's been a Metro Councilor, out-competing other cities for funding to implement visionary projects. And that's a good thing, because the stakes are high: climate change could significantly affect our region -- from water shortages for the people who grow our food, to populations moving here when their regions are affected.
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Rex heads north and stops at the former site of the Northeast Community School, a school he and his wife helped found, and to which one of his sons went.
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