Platinum Award Party
Portland City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Ave
Thursday, August 7, 2008
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Free and open to the public
Portland Platinum Party
Day: July 29, 2008
Senate Committee, McCain(?), will vote on National Bike Bill this week
The National Bike Bill is headed to a vote in the Senate Committee on Commerce Science, and Transportation this Thursday (7/31) and the League of American Bicyclists is asking its members to take action.
The bill (House Congressional Resolution 305) was introduced by Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) back in February and passed a House vote in May.
City to hold Platinum award party; will name first winner of ‘Bicycle Friendly Community Award’
The City of Portland has just announced their plans to celebrate the recent designation of Portland as a Platinum-level bicycle friendly community.
The event will be held at City Hall this next Thursday (8/7).
Popularity of ‘Short Track’ race series skyrockets
Short Track series organizer
Kris Schamp.
(Photos © J. Maus)
Kris Schamp.
(Photos © J. Maus)
The Portland Mountain Bike Short Track Race Series, which wrapped up its six-race series at Portland International Raceway (PIR) last night, has tallied a record number of participants.
Event founder and organizer Kris Schamp reports that for the first time ever, there were over 400 entries into last night’s event and that he tallied a 65% increase in the amount of unique racers (some folks race more than once per event) from last year.
Portland’s bike-friendly rep garners plenty of attention too
Suli Yu, a reporter for Voice of
America, working in SE Portland
this morning.
(Photo © J. Maus)
America, working in SE Portland
this morning.
(Photo © J. Maus)
Even though recent local and national headlines have portrayed an image of uneasiness and tension between bikes and cars on Portland’s roadways, our bike scene is also getting plenty of positive attention.
I just spent a few hours with Suli Yu, a video journalist with the Chinese bureau Voice of America. Founded in 1942, the VOA is a U.S. taxpayer-funded news service that broadcasts to a worldwide audience of 134 million people.
Mr. Yu was in Portland to produce a feature on our bike culture for Cultural Odyssey, a weekly news magazine program. Yu said the show will be translated into 44 languages and shown via satellite in cities around the world (in addition to being piped into every major hotel in China).
Neighborhood, city, move toward a carfree Last Thursday
“The city is allowing us to discourage cars from using Alberta with signs and posters asking them not to drive on the street during Last Thursday.”
–Magnus Johannesson, Alberta Street neighborhood activist and business owner.
The City of Portland, TriMet, and a neighborhood activist are moving forward on an effort to discourage cars from driving on NE Alberta Street during the monthly Last Thursday event.
Last month, Alberta Street neighborhood activist and business owner Magnus Johannesson drove two junker cars onto the street and created a temporary carfree zone before tow trucks and the Police Bureau showed up.
Photo of the Day: SPD cleats in cowboy boots
The BTA’s Angela Koch showed up at the Mountain Bike Short Track races at Portland International Raceway last night wearing these beauties…
The road rage heard ’round the world
Screenshot from Newsweek.com.
It’s been almost three weeks since an Oregonian story about a alcohol-related traffic altercation was blown up into a “bikes vs. cars” war and now Newsweek has taken the bait.
A story published yesterday in their National Affairs section is ominously titled, Road Rage in Portland: Bikes Cars Clash and Pedal vs. Metal: A surge in bike ridership spurs a new kind of road rage.