City employees flip pancakes for pedalers in Pioneer Square during Bike to Work Day festivities last year.(Photo © J. Maus)

If the rain and wind has got you down...cheer up! It's Bike to Work Month and there are free breakfasts and other events just around the corner.
The City of Portland's SmartTrips crew, the Bicycle Transportation [...]

That's a cool logo. I hope someonebrings me back a T-shirt.

Portland Mayor Sam Adams, his Chief of Staff Tom Miller, and Bureau of Transportation traffic safety specialist Greg Raisman will visit Brussels, Belgium next week for the 29th annual Velo-city Conference.
Widely regarded as the premier bicycle transportation conference in the world (the 2007 edition in [...]

TriMet bus operatorDan Christensen.(Photo courtesyDan Christensen)

[The following guest essay was written by TriMet bus operator Dan Christensen. You might remember Dan as the guy who started a petition among bus drivers in opposition to the new bikeways through the Rose Quarter Transit Center. Shortly thereafter, I shared a letter he wrote explaining his [...]

A reader just passed along a note that the bike and pedestrian walkway below the Steel Bridge will be closed this week. Here's the official notice from PortlandOnline.com:
Lower deck of Steel Bridge to close for maintenance May 5-7 and May 10
HDR Engineering Inc. will be inspecting and maintaining the concrete portions of the Steel [...]

Jonathan Nicholas in Heppner, Oregon during Cycle Oregon 2007.(Photo © J. Maus)

The following is a transcript of the speech given by Jonathan Nicholas at the City Club of Portland on May 1st, 2009.
Nicholas was a columnist at The Oregonian for 26 years and is now the Vice President of Branding and Corporate Communications at The [...]

Rigoletto company members with their bikes (Photos © Elly Blue)

We were pleasantly surprised a few weeks ago to receive an invitation to attend and blog about the opening night of Portland Opera's latest production, Verdi's Rigoletto, which opens this Friday, May 8th at 7:30pm at Keller Auditorium downtown.
Sounds great, we said, but what does this [...]

The City Club of Portland hosted inspiring bikes and speakers last Friday.(Photos © J. Maus)

There are many signs in Portland that bikes are quickly moving beyond their fringe and "activist" labels of the past (when's the last time you heard of Critical Mass in this city?). Families pedal our streets in increasing numbers, politicians [...]

Good times, pretty dresses, nice legs. Participants in the annual Pretty Dress Ride pose in their Sunday best.(Photos by Brad Reber)

Continuing a proud Portland tradition, a fun-loving group of folks got together on Sunday for the Pretty Dress Ride. The ride was founded by local artist and bike-funnist Carye Bye, who created the ride [...]

Good news, bad news, traffic gossip, and inspiring photos

- If you only click through to one of these stories today, make it this one: Streetsblog manages to make the mechanisms of federal transportation funding fairly understandable, explains why the last federal transportation bill (SAFETEA-LU) is inadequate, and outlines what is needed for the new bill [...]

Get dolled up for the pretty dress ride on Sunday!(Photo © J. Maus)

We're putting up the weekend guide up a little early this week to help you all make your plans.
Get the weekend started tonight with Clever Cycles' Heels on Wheels party. Dress up as fancy as you like and come check out their [...]

[This article by freelance reporter Libby Tucker is the result of a collaboration between BikePortland.org and New Internationalist magazine. The NI -- which is based in Oxford, England and has an international circulation of about 65,000 -- will publish a version of this story in their June edition as part of a series of articles [...]