Portland Mayor Tom PotterFile photo: 7/26/06

As promised, Mayor Tom Potter has released a statement about his decision to not provide funding for the Bicycle Master Plan Update process:
Office of Mayor Tom Potter
City of Portland
Thank you for emailing me about the proposed budget and the Platinum Bicycle Master Plan. For this budget, we were faced [...]

Wheel gutter, bike boulevard markings are among improvements.File Photo: 4/27/07

The Hollywood Transit Center, at the intersection of NE Halsey and 42nd (map), has gotten some bike love from the City of Portland.
The crucial north-south connection has long been a thorn in the side of cyclists trying to get over I-84. Southbound cyclists [...]

Gary Fisher Sugar 4+. Blue, 19 inch full suspension mountain bike. Stolen from the back of my car...sad.
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(*Editor's note, 4/29): My initial report got some facts wrong. I have tried to clean things up and I've added in more details. I regret the errors.

A car-less moment on Alberta.File photo: 7/27/06

I wasn't there, but I just read the news on the Oregonian Blog that things got a little out of hand [...]

Hot off the presses, here's the City of Portland's official Bike to Work Day flyer...

The City will have "free continental breakfast served to all who ride, and free fun for everyone who shows up." Flyer: Courtesy Dat Nguyen

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Michelle Poyourow and Scott Bricker of the BTA have spent most of the day in City Hall, working to find a solution to get our Bicycle Master Plan Update process back into the budget.
Michelle just updated their blog and reported that the Mayor's office received a record amount of 300 unique phone calls and emails [...]

File photo: 4/7/06

Responses from City Commissioners on the Mayor's decision to not fund the Bicycle Master Plan Update process are trickling in.
Commissioner Randy Leonard says,
"I will do what I can to get the Bike Master Plan funding back in the budget...thanks for writing me."
Matthew Grumm from Commissioner Dan Saltzman's office says,
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2001 Gary Fisher Paragon hardtail with v-brakes. Rear Rack with black Planet Bike Freddy Fender on the rear covering 2.1 Specialized Crosstrail tire mounted on a Sun Rhyno Lite rim. Fork has a Shock Blade fender over a Specialized 1.5 Nimbus armadillo tire mounted on the stock Bontrager wheelset. Silver Race Face [...]

2001 Gary Fisher Paragon hardtail with v-brakes. Rear Rack with black Planet Bike Freddy Fender on the rear covering 2.1 Specialized Crosstrail tire mounted on a Sun Rhyno Lite rim. Fork has a Shock Blade fender over a Specialized 1.5 Nimbus armadillo tire mounted on the stock Bontrager wheelset. Silver Race Face [...]

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File photo: 8/26/05

The Portland Police Bureau released their Annual Traffic Activity Summary yesterday. The report details all the traffic violations and expenditures for 2006.
Among the stats was a page devoted to "Non-permitted Protest, Demonstration, Critical Mass". It's important to note not only how they categorize their presence at Critical Mass, but the amount [...]

River City owner Dave Guettler, after the Halloween cross race last year.File photo: 10/29/06

Bicycle Retailer and Industry News (BRAIN) reports that local retailer River City Bicycles has won the first-ever Greenie Award. The award was created by Specialized Bicycles as a way to, "acknowledge its retailers' green-minded efforts and to motivate the public [...]

Women's style bike with mirror on left handlebar, a blue and pink shark horn on the handlebars, red handle grips on end of handlebars, a chariot trailer hitch on rear axle. Stolen from PCC cascade campus
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Silver Marin Mountain Bike, Cross terrane Tires one with a slime tube in the tire with bright green valve cap. Schimano components, 21 speed, soft tail Seet, black bike rack on back, black bell onn handelbars, possibly still has decals on it from the bike rental place in San Francisco that I bought it [...]

To Portland's bike insiders, savvy advocates, BTA members, and regular readers of this site, the Bicycle Master Plan Update process is nothing new. We've been getting excited about it for months. There have been brown bag discussions, monthly rides, steering committee meetings, a lot of coverage on this site, and so on.
But the [...]

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(Note: The title of this post was originally, "Benefits fraud may stymie progress on Bike Commuter Act." I changed it to better reflect the situation.).
I just got an email from Congressman Earl Blumenauer's legislative assistant Katie Drennan. She said that although there is considerable momentum for the Bike Commuter Act (42 co-sponsors so [...]

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Last month's Bike Master Plan Ride drew a big crowd.File photo: 4/3/07

Next week, we have an opportunity to show the Mayor that the Bicycle Master Plan Update is much more than just another planning process.
On Tuesday (5/1), City Bike Coordinator Roger Geller will lead the fourth in his series of Bicycle Master Plan Rides. [...]