L.A. got some major attention in the NY Times.

Here's the top news and other cool stuff that caught our eyes this past week...
- Sightline takes a look at why women don't ride bikes to work more often and finds the reasons are more complex - and sometimes simpler - than many people think.
- Already [...]

Back on top where we belong.

Bicycling Magazine has just released their 2012 Bike-Friendly Cities rankings and Portland sits atop the heap once again.
Portland was ranked #2 in 2010, which was the last time the rankings came out. Prior to that Portland had earned the top spot every year since 1995. Our defeat to Minneapolis at [...]

The corner of SW 3rd and Madison filled with people who came together to remember Wednesday's tragedy.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)

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The BTA wants to make guards like these (installed on Water Bureau trucks in 2008 in response to a fatal collision) mandatory.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland

With the death of Kathryn Rickson still fresh on the minds of many (the community will gather at the intersection tonight at 5:30 pm), there is already a strong chorus calling [...]

Then and now on Mt. Tabor.(Photo L: James Mason/Photo R © J. Maus/BikePortland)

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Detail from PBOT drawings of proposed changes on NE Multnomah St.

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U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley at a Bike to Work Day event this morning.(Photo: Jeff Merkley's office)

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Castelli will donate $60 dollars to OBRA for every one of these jerseys they sell (price is $100).

The Oregon Bicycle Racing Association (OBRA) is just about $5,000 short of meeting their goal for the first phase of a fundraising effort to replace the pock-marked and cracking concrete surfaces on the venerable Alpenrose Velodrome in Portland's [...]

(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)

Portland Mayor Sam Adams just issued a statement about last night's fatal collision on SW 3rd and Madison.
Adams' office has posted the statement on his blog, under the headline: Statement from Mayor Sam Adams on Bicycle Accident at SW 3rd and Madison. Here it is:
Last night, a terrible tragedy occurred downtown: a [...]

Bike Walk Vote excited an active (transportation) base of Portland voters.(Photo © J. Maus)

Tuesday night's elections were full of good news for Portland's re-energized Bike Walk Vote political action committee.
After being founded in 2004, then lying dormant for several years following the 2008 elections, Bike Walk Vote came roaring back last winter. Boasting some [...]

Most of N. Williams Ave will be converted into this cross-section.(Graphics: Fat Pencil Studios)

Finally.
This Saturday (5/19), PBOT will host the final open house for their North Williams Ave Traffic Operations Safety Project.
As we shared back in March, after 13 months of public process, a citizen committee finally made a decision last month about [...]

Participants in the program pose in front of Human Services Council in Vancouver.(Photos: Human Services Council))

[This story was written by Madeleine von Laue.]
A Vancouver woman has a new job and a new bicycle to get there, thanks in part to a new program that helps job seekers and low-income adults in SW Washington access bicycles [...]

Kathryn Rickson on May 3rd.(Photo: Facebook profile)

Tomorrow night the community will gather at the corner of SW 3rd and Madison in downtown Portland to remember Kathyrn Rickson. Kathryn is the 28-year-old Southeast Portland resident who died late last night from injuries sustained in a collision with a truck while bicycling through that intersection.
Every time someone [...]

Emergency crews at work.(Photo: JoniPhoto.com)

The Portland Police Bureau have just released information about a very serious collision that happened downtown less than one hour ago.
It occurred at the intersection of SW 3rd and Madison at around 8:30 pm tonight. Police say it appears that the woman — now identified as 28-year-old Kathryn Leah Rickson [...]

Lindsay Walker of the Lloyd TMA looks over the project maps with PBOT Traffic Engineer Rob Burchfield and City Bike Coordinator Roger Geller.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)

Last night the City of Portland and representatives from the Lloyd Transportation Management Association hosted an open house for their NE Multnomah Street Transportation Pilot Project. It was the first [...]

How did we get here? New slides from PBOT tell an even more detailed and interesting story of how Portland's bike network has evolved. See the full animation below.

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ODOT Director Matt Garrett, photographed in Salem.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)

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Rolling toward a new bill (finally!).(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)

It's been a very long and winding road for the federal transportation bill. And while it looks like the end is finally in sight, there is still some nail-biting ahead.
The law that dictates how the federal government funds transportation expired over 900 days ago and has survived [...]

Portland resident Chris Chapman has launched a new cycling apparel brand called, "It's in my Heart". The business is just getting off the ground; but Chapman, a former brand manager at Castelli/Sportful, says he's already got orders flowing in from all of Portland's major bike shops as well as the Made in Oregon store and [...]

Please note: I've posted an updated version of this animation that is much more detailed.

Portland's paltry network of bike-specific infrastructure, circa 1980. See how it has evolved below.

Portland's bike network was not built overnight. Most of our bike-specific infrastructure was built in the mid to late 1990s, but it really started in the early '80s. [...]