This just in from Multnomah County:
Sellwood Bridge task force meeting on January 19
The Community Task Force for the Sellwood Bridge Project will meet on Monday, January 19 from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm at OMSI, 1945 SE Water Avenue. At the meeting, the task force is expected to recommend a preferred alternative to provide [...]

Off to another "greening".(Photos © J. Maus)

Local cleaning business, Q19 Greening, is looking to buy a fleet of Dutch cargo bikes to make good on their eco-friendly mission. I met up with their first bike-enabled employee the other day to see how things were going.
Greg Davis calls himself a Q19 "greener" (instead of cleaner, [...]

Parking on the left, tricky tracks on the right.(Photo © J. Maus)

This week, the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation decided to remove on-street parking on the new transit mall ahead of schedule due to safety concerns first brought to their attention by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) back in October.

ODOT wants $2 million to improve illumination on I-205 bike path.(Photo © J. Maus)

The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has released their official list of projects to be included in the federal economic stimulus bill that is expected to come together in mid-February
The list includes 46 projects throughout the state and a total stimulus funding [...]

[Via Dustbowl]

Design duo Alex Tee and Evan Gant from Massachusetts based product design firm Altitude Inc., are making waves around the web for their new "LightLane" concept.
Here's how they describe it:
Our system projects a crisply defined virtual bike lane onto pavement, using a laser, providing the driver with a familiar boundary to avoid. [...]

Below is a press release sent out yesterday by Metro. I have just received the actual resolution and list of projects and I might do another story about it on the Front Page soon.
For now...
Regional leaders unite to send strong message on federal transportation priorities
The Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation (JPACT) [...]

If you're looking for more information from the BTA on why they've decided to push the Oregon legislature to pass a law that would make it legal for people on bicycles to roll through stop signs (a.k.a. an "Idaho-style" stop sign law), read the statement just published by their lobbyist Karl Rohde.
Here are some excerpts:
Coming [...]

One of Portland's customized bike lane markings.-Slideshow below-(Photo: City of Portland)

2009 marks the 10th anniversary of a proud Portland tradition: our creatively modified bike lane pavement markings or what I like to call, "bike lane guys".
The "unlikely cycling hero" who started the tradition in 1999 -- according to Portlander Jim Waigand, who has documented the [...]

Reader Kathy Hile sent in this photo from her commute over the Broadway Bridge this morning. "It was a very surreal ride, biking in the fog..." she wrote.

The Broadway Bridge in the fog on Thursday morning (Photo: Kathy Hile)

Chris Smith, Streetcar

Jason Tell, ODOT

Scott Bricker, BTA

Rex Burkholder, Metro

Mark Ginsberg, Lawyer

Sue Keil, PBOT

Some familiar faces on the Transportation Cabinet.(All photos © J. Maus)

[Publisher's note: This article is a dispatch by Managing Editor Elly Blue, who recently attended the Transportation Research Board conference in Washington D.C. Read more articles from Elly's East Coast Tour.]

John La Verdure (Photo by Elly Blue)

Taking a break in the lobby of the Marriott during the TRB conference, I noticed a man [...]

The Frequently Asked Questions below were developed by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) as supporting material for their Idaho Stop Law proposal.
Frequently Asked Questions
What would this law do?
This law would make it legal for bicyclists to treat stop signs like yield signs. A cyclist approaching an intersection controlled by a stop sign, would be [...]

The BTA hopes to make it legal to roll through stop signs.(Photos © J. Maus)

The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA), a Portland-based non-profit with over 5,000 members statewide, has proposed a new law that would make it legal to roll through a stop sign while riding a bicycle in Oregon.
In an interview this afternoon, BTA lobbyist [...]

Some Portlanders continued to ride bikes during the storm.(Photo © J. Maus)

The Mayor's office has launched a survey to help gather feedback about how they responded to the major storm we had at the end of 2008 (take it online here).
The survey is part of a "snow and ice readiness assessment" that the Mayor's office [...]

Design drawing of Gibbs Street bike and pedestrian bridge, which has been fast-tracked by Mayor Adams to help Portland's economy.

Yesterday, the City of Portland announced a $503 million economic stimulus plan. Within that plan, is $52 million in Bureau of Transportation projects -- several of which include bike-related facilities.
Here is a brief summary of [...]

Roger Mallette of Retro Image Apparel is wasting no time establishing his business in Portland. Mallette, who just moved his headquarters to Southeast Portland in December, inked a deal yesterday to design and sell a Lucky Labrador Brewing Company bike jersey.
The jersey is the first in what Mallette hopes will be a large line [...]