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Brian Potwin is the Executive Director of Commute Options. He has lived in Central Oregon since the year 2000 and loves to ride bicycles and work with the community. Working for Commute Options since 2008, Brian has learned many techniques for outreaching and engaging communities in Central Oregon.

He is passionate about creative change and promoting community health, active transportation and a vibrant local economy. In this episode of Bend Don’t Break, we chat with Potwin about Commute Options programming and its approach to helping communities stay safe while walking, riding or rolling around Central Oregon.

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This article appears in Source Weekly June 29, 2023.

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LISTEN: Commuting via Bike, Walk or Roll with Brian Potwin 🎧

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
June 30, 2023

<h1>LISTEN: Commuting via Bike, Walk or Roll with Brian Potwin 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />June 30, 2023</p> <br /> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full alignright alignright"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/bend-dont-break-podcast-brian-potwin.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/bend-dont-break-podcast-brian-potwin.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-48542" /></a></figure> <p> <span class="fdnDropCap">B</span>rian Potwin is the Executive Director of <a href="https://www.commuteoptions.org/" target="_blank">Commute Options</a>. He has lived in Central Oregon since the year 2000 and loves to ride bicycles and work with the community. Working for Commute Options since 2008, Brian has learned many techniques for outreaching and engaging communities in Central Oregon.</p> <p>He is passionate about creative change and promoting community health, active transportation and a vibrant local economy. In this episode of Bend Don't Break, we chat with Potwin about Commute Options programming and its approach to helping communities stay safe while walking, riding or rolling around Central Oregon.</p> <p><b>LISTEN NOW: </b></p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/commuting-via-bike-walk-or-roll-with-brian-potwin" title="Commuting via bike, walk or roll with Brian Potwin" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Commuting via bike, walk or roll with Brian Potwin</a></div> </p></div> <div class="wp-block-group fdn-after-article-related"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Related Stories</h3> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-commuting-via-bike-walk-or-roll-with-brian-potwin-19420213/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=48539&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-commuting-via-bike-walk-or-roll-with-brian-potwin-19420213/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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