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Day: May 14, 2008

Art Hop Bike Parade – Pretty Dress Ride

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Meet at King School, NE Alberta St and 6th Ave

Just a month before the madness of Pedalpalooza begins, let’s shine up our hottest bikes and parade ourselves down Alberta Street to show off the who’s who of Portland bike culture during the Art Hop’s annual parade! We want to see all sorts of bike culture clans: Tall bikes, clowns, sweet schwinns, minis, move-by-bike, shifties, tandems, recumbents, unicycles, bmx, trikes, families & kids & more. Also everyone is invited to wear a pretty dress! As this is also the annual May pretty dress ride. Post parade, pretty dress riders will continue on for a bike ride & picnic. FREE.

Carye Bye & Jenny Fosmire, bikebat at gmail daht comm, redbatpress.com/pretty2, 503-248-4454 [forum]

Why are bicycles key to the future of Portland (and other cities)?

“Bicycling is the most equitable and affordable form of transportation… All of Portland’s citizens already live within a 20-minute bicycle ride of our existing Regional and Town Centers and Commercial Main Streets.”
–From a document produced by PDOT titled Bicycling Into Our Future

Steve Dotterer with the City of Portland Bureau of Planning made a presentation about The Portland Plan at last night’s meeting of the Portland Bicycle Advisory Committee.

According to the official website, The Portland Plan “is an inclusive, citywide effort to guide the physical, economic, social, cultural and environmental development of Portland over the next 30 years.”

The three-year effort is just getting underway, and will ultimately tackle the prodigious task of completely re-analyzing nearly every facet of Portland’s urban design in an attempt to update our city’s Comprehensive Plan and our Central City Plan (which were last updated in 1980 and 1988 respectively).

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PSU Seminar: Where Do People Bicycle? Infrastructure and Bicycle Behavior

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PSU Center for Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar

Location: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204

Speaker: Jennifer Dill, Associate Professor, School of Urban Studies and Planning, PSU

Topic: Where Do People Bicycle? The Role of Infrastructure in Determining Bicycling Behavior

This seminar will present results from the BikeGPS study that collected data from Portland area bicyclists using GPS technology. The study collected data from over 150 cyclists for seven days each during 2007, resulting in detailed information for over 1,500 bicycle trips throughout the urban area. The GPS data provides detailed information on the amount, location, and speed of bicycle travel and allows us to answer questions about route choice. For example, how much to people ride on roads with bike lanes, on bike boulevards, or paths? Do these patterns vary by gender, age, or other factors?

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And they’re off! Racers speed along Portland waterfront

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Mt. Hood Cycling Classic - Stage 1-9.jpg

A rider leaves the start ramp.
Waterfront Park is in the background.
View the Stage 1 Photo Gallery
(Photos © J. Maus)

The Mt. Hood Cycling Classic got off to a fast start in downtown Portland last night.

It was a surreal sight. All the northbound lanes of Naito Parkway were closed and lycra-clad pro bike racers sped down the road while rush-hour traffic sat in a gridlock all around the course.

227 of America’s fastest cyclists (143 men and 84 women) went through the start ramp — which was located right in front of Salmon Street Fountain. They tested their bodies and machines against the clock in front of hundreds of appreciative fans.

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