john

I think the obvious is that Portland has the cycling population to make it a sucess.
When you have 10,000 plus bike trips / cycling commutters a day in the summer (correct me if this is wrong), then you have a huge base of fans and participants. Centrally located, I could envision most of these fans and participants riding their bicycles or using mass transit to get to the velodrome.

I am a little leary of goverment involvement. Just another layer of complication and beaucracy and mess... but then again typically local goverment can be more efficient and effective than state or federal..

Doug Turnbull wrote:
After reading all these excited emails about building two new
velodromes in Portland and southern Oregon, I am curious as to why
Eugene is not one of the proposed sites. Eugene/Springfield is the
second largest city in the state, we have a large cycling community,
and we are centrally located geographically. I certainly think the
proposal to build more velodromes is fantastic, but I am just
wondering (with a bit of jealousy) why Portland and southern Oregon
were picked instead of my town. Has there ever been talk of building
one here?

-Doug

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john m schmidt
portland oregon