PBOT Director Sue Keil at a press conference in May 2008.(Photos © J. Maus)

Back in January, just days before the Willamette Week broke news of Mayor Sam Adams' relationship with Beau Breedlove, the incoming Mayor unveiled an ambitious plan of projects he promised to complete in his first 100 days on the job.
Among those promises [...]

"Bump" showing his skills.(Photos by Elly Blue)-Slideshows below-

Mini Bike Winter is Zoobomb's answer to all of Portland's summer bicycle fun -- but less of it, and on small bikes.
The festivities go on for several days, and after missing the glorious Hamster Ball on Saturday night I determined to head out on Sunday to catch [...]

"Failing to support the Mayor's very affordable new bicycling initiatives when more revenue is on the table does not reflect this city's transportation or liveability [sic] priorities."-- Michelle Poyourow of the BTA in an action alert sent to members today

The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) has issued an action alert to their 3,000 members in Portland [...]

Time for the Monday news roundup!

Critical Mass vindicated; freeway and budget sinkholes; carfree cities go mainstream; James Dean

- NY Times columnist David Brooks' rant in favor of sprawling suburbs sparked a large number of interesting letters to the editor.
- Obama has named Adolfo Carrión Jr. to head the newly created White House Office of [...]

The Burnside Bridgehead site.

An article published Friday in the Portland Business Journal makes short reference to some very interesting news about the Burnside Bridgehead project site.
The four acre site (at the northwest corner of the intersection of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. and E. Burnside) was initially planned to be a gateway to the Central [...]

Portland's Safer Routes to Schools program encourages kids to ride to school -- but budget cuts loom.(Photos © J. Maus)

The City of Portland's Safer Routes to Schools program is facing a steep drop in its funding for the 2009-2010 fiscal year.
In the past two years (Portland's fiscal year goes from July 1 to June 30) [...]

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Portland's 1st Kidical Mass in June, 2008(Photos © J. Maus)

Kidical Mass
Kids are traffic, too! Kidical Mass is a celebration of family bicycling. Training wheels, tagalongs, and trailers are all welcome on this easy-going, short, legal family ride. Be sure to bring lights and warm clothes. All families are encouraged to attend.
Sunnyside Environmental School [...]

State Rep. Jules Bailey

Newly elected Oregon State Representative from Southeast Portland, Jules Bailey, has introduced a bill into the legislature that would create a new vehicle weight class for non-motorized vehicles weighing under 50 pounds -- such as bicycles (we think that weight might be too low with some of today's new cargo bikes, but [...]

"[The OTC showed a] cautious willingness to consider the possibility that local bike, pedestrian and transit projects might just be as "shovel ready" as ODOT's existing list." -- Bob Stacey, 1000 Friends of Oregon

The Governor-appointed Oregon Transportation Commission (OTC) was set to make a decision on how Oregon would spend it's federal economic stimulus money [...]

The City wants to know more aboutbiking in the Storm of 2008.-Take the survey-(Photo © J. Maus)

Mayor Adams' office has just released a survey titled, Bicycle Transportation During the Storm of December 2008.
The survey (take it online here) comes after their initial Winter Storm Response Survey, released back in January, failed to mention bicycles at [...]

Logo for 2009 Oregon Bike Summit

Since its humble beginnings back in 2006, the Oregon Bike Summit has steadily grown into an important event for anyone working to make Oregon, "The Land Bicycles Dream About". This year, the event will continue that growth and take a big step in its evolution.
Following in the footsteps of [...]

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The Institute for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation at Portland State University will host a week-long course on bicycle and pedestrian facility design and planning this summer.
Here's the blurb:
"This week-long course will provide practitioners with the fundamentals of pedestrian and bicycle planning and design through an intensive week of classroom, field, and project experience. In [...]

Frank Selker(Photo © J. Maus)

Frank Selker, the man with the mountain bike plan for Forest Park, is just 20 people shy of his goal to get 100 new, mountain-bike loving Portlanders to join the Forest Park Conservancy (FPC).
When we checked in with Frank last month, he was halfway to his goal. Today, he emailed [...]

(Photo still from Streetfilms/Clarence Eckerson)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation for their work in encouraging seniors to adopt a healthy lifestyle. A key component of that effort is the PBOT's Senior Cyclist Program.
The Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging Achievement Award was given at the recent [...]

The WES has newly designed hooks, but fewer of them.(Photo: Jim Parsons)

TriMet's new Westside Express (WES) commuter service officially opened at the end of January to big celebrations, but people that showed up to ride the train with their bikes in tow, quickly found that the WES has less -- as in, less hooks for [...]

Bike polo at Alberta Park will decide the state championships in March.(Photo © J. Maus)

Get your mallets ready bike polo fans, Portland is set host the first-ever Oregon Bike Polo Championships.
On the weekend of March 7th - 9th, the best bike polo players from all over the Northwest will vie for the championship [...]

Chair of the Oregon Transportation Commission, Gail Achterman, is in the driver's seat on how our statespends its federal stimulus money.(Photos © J. Maus)

The Oregon Transportation Commission (OTC) is meeting this morning in Salem to discuss which infrastructure projects will get built with money from America's recently passed economic stimulus plan.
The OTC is a five [...]

Have you seen this guy (or this bike?!).

On the evening of Valentines Day, Portland bike racer Patrick Wilder got his heart broken.
Wilder, who races cyclocross and mountain bikes with the Team Cyclepath, awoke on February 15th to realize that his two prized, high-end titanium bikes were stolen from a locked, private storage unit [...]

The ghost bike for Austin Miller.(Photos: Jim "K'Tesh" Parsons)

On February 11, 2008, 15-year old Beaverton high school student Austin Miller was collided with a TriMet bus when he merged from a sidepath on Murray Road into a bus stop on SW Farmington Road.
The tragedy sent shockwaves through the region. It raised questions about the [...]