A sign on the St. Johns Bridge.(Photos © J. Maus)

UPDATED, at 9:55am on 2/11
Just before 6:30 pm tonight, Portland Police officers responded to a collision on the St. Johns Bridge.
According to their report, a 23-year-old man was riding his bike and a 58-year-old man driving a small pick were involved in a collision. Both [...]

Yesterday morning I got two reports from readers about a bike/car collision at the intersection of SE 16th and Ankeny. I usually don't post about every bike-involved collision I hear about; but since two people emailed and it's on a busy bike street, I figured this one was worth sharing.
Reader Marsha H. wrote in, [...]

Paul Jeffery, photographed at Common Grounds coffee shop this morning.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)

48-year-old southeast Portland resident Paul Jeffery (he goes by PJ) used to enjoy a daily ride from his house near 40th and Salmon to the Goose Hollow MAX stop. From there, he'd zip through the hills and down into Beaverton where he'd pedal [...]

Executive Director of OPAL, Jonathan Ostar, photographed at the Active Transportation debate on Monday night.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)

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Two great job opportunities at local bike shops came in this week. Check out the details in the links below...

Sales/Service — Bike N' Hike Hillsboro
Bike Shop Superstar — Metropolis Cycle Repair

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PBOT hopes these new markings improve safety at the intersection of N. Vancouver and Graham near Legacy Emanuel Hospital.

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Sample receipt showing VMT charge.(Graphic: ODOT)

At all levels of government, transportation officials are running scared due to a severe lack of funding available to maintain and improve our roads. The major reason for all this anxiety is the failure of the gas tax to evolve with the times. Truly a "dinosaur" of a funding mechanism, [...]

New signs in Paris that tell people on bikes that they can roll throughcertain intersections under certain conditions.

If you only read the media accounts, you'd think that officials in the French capitol of Paris have just given people on bicycles a free pass to wantonly roll through red lights with reckless abandon.
The Oregonian's website reads, [...]

Awwwww. This little fella stands ready to snuggle with your bike at the Oregon Humane Society.

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"Terrible", "horrible", "worst ever", "disaster", "defective" — these are just some of the terms that high-profile media outlets and top-ranking officials have used to describe the House transportation bill (H.R. 7, full text here as PDF).
Realizing that the bill is so far off base that no amount of amendments would help, national transportation advocacy [...]

How can PBOT best target safety resources to streets like these?(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)

The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has announced three open houses where you can learn more and offer input on their High Crash Corridor Safety program.
High Crash Corridors are roadways that, according to PBOT, "have exceptional concentrations of crash activity." [...]

Northeast Portland resident Slate Olson is general manager of North American operations for UK-based Rapha Performance Roadwear, a company with over $20 million in sales last year.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)

It's been four years since UK-based cycling apparel company Rapha chose Portland as its North American headquarters. Since then, the company has grown by leaps and [...]

The BTA's Steph Noll on E Burnside and 16th in 2007.(Photo © Jonathan Maus)

Last week a reader email spurred me to check up on a project I first wrote about in December 2007.
Reader Kevin B wrote:
"I live in the Kerns neighborhood and my kids go to Buckman Elementary. During our bike/scooter ride each morning to [...]

(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)

This morning, TriMet unveiled a proposal of service cuts and fare increases they plan to move forward with in order to make up for a $17 million budget shortfall. If you're a fan of transit, and of making our city one that is less reliant on private automobiles, this is not good [...]

Riders gather in the Tiger Woods Centerbefore the route announcement.(Photo: Will Vanlue/BikePortland)

This evening a group of roughly 700 people joined Cycle Oregon staff and volunteers at the Tiger Woods Center on the Nike campus in Beaverton to hear where the two Cycle Oregon rides are headed in 2012.
Everyone was excited to hear this year's [...]

Hi folks. I want to interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to address an important issue.
As the publisher of this site (and president of Pedaltown Media Inc., the company that owns it), everything that is written on these pages — and everyone who writes them — is a reflection on my business, and in some ways, [...]

Aerial view of Williams and Failing.

During the monthly stakeholder advisory committee meeting for the North Williams Traffic Operations Safety Project today, PBOT announced that it's "unlikely" they would be willing to redesign the street in the section between N Cook and Skidmore (known as Segment 4) into a one-lane configuration for auto traffic.
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A rapid flash beacon at work.(Photo from beacon manufacturer)

The Oregon Department of Transportation flipped the switch on a new crossing treatment on SW Barbur this morning. The location, south of SW Hamilton Street near Rasmussen Village, is just up the road from where Angela Burke was struck and then killed on December 15th, 2010 by [...]

Eileen Brady, Charlie Hales, and Jefferson Smith on stage at Lincoln Hall.

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When a book says it's "all about the bike" and proudly displays images of disassembled bike components on its cover I assume it will eventually be sitting on a shelf in my garage, close to a pedal wrench and a bottle of chain lube.

William Fotheringham's Cyclopedia from Chicago Review Press is far from the repair [...]