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• The Monday Roundup (February 8, 2010)
  

  Here’s the news that caught our eye this week:
  - The ballooning recall of Toyota models with sticky accellerators has cast light on the reluctance with which the auto industry responds to safety issues.
  - While many of our Portland readers were at City Hall to rally and attend the new bicycle plan hearing, the federal [...]

• The Monday Roundup (February 1, 2010)
  

  Here’s the news that caught our eye this week:
  - In last week’s round of federal investment in high speed rail corridors, the Pacific Northwest has been assigned nearly $600 million. Portland will use $8 million to fix Union Station’s leaky roof, and Washington State will use the rest for track installation and repair.
  - Use of [...]

• Weekend Event Guide (January 28, 2010)
  

  A serious and important community forum tonight kicks off a weekend of haywire bike fun and creative activism. Who says we can’t have it all? Share your events and plans below.
  Thursday, January 28
  6:00pm – 8:00pm: 21st Century Civil Rights: Transportation Health Equity Community Forum
  How can improving our transportation systems improve our communities, our health, and [...]

• The Monday Roundup (January 25, 2010)
  

  Here’s the news that caught our eye this week:
  - Another voice has joined the chorus pointing out that the federal government can create more jobs by building public transit rather than freeways.
  - The 2010 Winter Olympics will be in Vancouver, BC, and the big question on the minds of many is how to [...]

• Weekend Event Guide (January 21, 2010)
  

  Here’s the scoop on weekend events. Feel free to add your own and discuss your plans in the comments.
  Thursday, January 21
  5:00pm – 7:00pm: Portland Car-Free Happy Hour
  Car-free by chance or choice? Professionally involved in transportation and livability? Just want to meet people? All are welcome to meet up at this monthly informal social gathering. [...]

• The Monday Roundup (January 18, 2010)
  

  Hope you are all having a happy day off (or day on). Here’s the news that caught our eye this week:
  - A group of business leaders and investors (worth about $13 trillion) has thrown its weight into the climate change fight, urging world governments to act quickly.
  - More cars—about four million—were scrapped than sold in [...]

• Weekend Event Guide and Open Thread (January 14, 2010)
  

  Rain and bike fun go together just fine. (Photo © J. Maus)

  A solid lineup of weekend events should ensure bike fun for all. Don’t mind the rain. And let us know what you’re up to by bike in the comments.

• Photo of the Week: The landscaping trike (January 13, 2010)
  

  (Photo © Elly Blue)

  Walking past the Concordia University campus in Northeast Portland recently, I spotted this cargo trike converted to a landscaping truck.

• Editorial: My year as a woman in a city of bikes (January 12, 2010)
  

  But even here in Portland, particularly in parts of the bike scene with a strong connection with sports and business, assumptions about gender often remain unquestioned.

  February: I am asked to volunteer on a committee for a bicycle organization “because we need more women.” The person who invites me says that he had been frantically calling [...]

• The Monday Roundup (January 11, 2010)
  

  Here’s the news that caught our eye this week:

  China, car capital of the world; Tweeting and driving; immobilizing the poor; Potestio speaks; Jacquie Phelan speaks; garbage bikes; burning cars; motorized wheelchairs on the loose.

  - The high-profile “road rage doctor” case has concluded; ER doctor Christopher Thompson, who was found guilty of intentionally slamming on his [...]