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Day: April 10, 2008

Hit-and-run leads to critical injuries, frustration

Hit-and-run victim Jessica Osborne in
the ICU the night of the crash (4/3).
(Photo: Amy Wolf)

Last Thursday, 28 year-old Northeast Portland resident Jessica Osborne was riding her bike to the store when she was struck by a car. The driver paused briefly, then left her for dead on the pavement.

The impact ruptured Osborne’s spleen, cracked three vertebrae, collapsed two of her lungs, and left her with scrapes and bruises all over her body.

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Filmed by Bike opens Friday; record crowds expected

Buffered Bike Lane with a bike symbol and arrow pointing forward
Filmed by Bike

Bob New (L) and Timo Forsberg
at the 2006 Filmed by Bike.
(Photo © J. Maus)

Filmed by Bike is gearing up for its biggest year ever. A truly homegrown success story, the event (April 11-13) has flowered from humble beginnings in 2003 into the West Coast’s premiere bike-themed film festival.

This year, organizers expect over 2,000 attendees to join in, “a celebration of the artistic side of cycling,” at one of eight screenings of 37 films from around the world.

For the past few years, opening night has been a mob scene where bike and film lovers from far and wide descend on the smallish Clinton Street Theater in southeast Portland for what organizer Ayleen Crotty calls the, “opening night throwdown.”

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Police Bureau Captain assembles new bike law working group

Traffic Division Captain, Larry O’Dea
at the bike box press event in March.
(Photos © J. Maus)

Portland Police Bureau Traffic Division Captain Larry O’Dea wants to learn more about bicycle laws.

In fact, he also wants his officers, local judges, bike advocates, lawyers, and others to learn more too.

Next month, he’ll assemble all of them to discuss their perspectives and expectations about how bike laws are enforced.

I heard Captain O’Dea mention this at a meeting of the Portland Bicycle Advisory Committee (PBAC) on Tuesday night and he told me more in a conversation we had afterwards.

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