Screenshot of new crash and close call reporting tool.(Click to enlarge)

A graduate student at Portland State University’s Center for Urban Studies has made exciting progress on a tool that will allow the community to report close calls, collisions and problem locations.
The last time I mentioned a close calls map was in January of 2006. […]

Portland will be part of a nationwide effort to document bike use.(Photo © J. Maus)

For the first time ever, Portland will take part in a nationwide effort to document the number of people biking and walking on our streets.
The National Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project was initiated in 2003 by Alta Planning and Design (a […]

“The purpose is to increase our aspirations - to move from contentment at being the “best in the U.S.” to the ambition of being truly world-class.”–Metro President David Bragdon

Members of a committee formed by Metro to focus on funding new biking and walking trails in the Portland region are packing their bags for a study […]

High speeds, freeway ramps, and a need for approval by ODOT have stalled a bikeway improvement project in North Portland.This view is looking west on Rosa Parks at Missouri.(Photo © J. Maus)

A project to improve the safety of non-motorized traffic on Rosa Parks Way (formerly N. Portland Blvd.) in North Portland has stalled.
Back […]

The Salmon Street Fountain provided a nice respite from Saturday’s sun.Slideshow below(Photos © J. Maus)

Despite scary-high temperatures last Saturday, the Portland stop of New Belgium’s Tour de Fat still drew an enthusiastic crowd.
Things kicked off with a bike parade and an estimated 300 people wearing all manner of silly outfits and freaky bikes took part. […]

Does your dreamy vision of Portland include bikes (I know mine does)?
If so, check out My Pretty Portland, the Portland Mercury and the Art Institute of Portland’s short film contest.
They’re looking for a few shorts that showcase, “what you love, what you cherish, what makes Portland special for you.”
I know there are many […]

Ready to ride.(Photo © J. Maus)

Kidical Mass continued to stoke the family biking revolution with several rides all over Portland tonight.
I joined a healthy group of families at Peninsula Park for a pleasant, few-mile ramble over to Arbor Lodge Park where the kids played, the parents chatted, and everyone nibbled on potluck offerings.
Did […]

Inside the Sapa factory.(Photo: Sapa)

A company based in Northeast Portland that produces tens of thousands of bicycle frames per year might be on its way to Vancouver.
A story published on July 30 in the The Columbian, Aluminum company might bring 900 jobs to Vancouver, details that documents filed with the City of Vancouver for a […]

(Photo © J. Maus)

Here in Portland, the “bike fun” movement is alive and well.
What is bike fun? Well, it’s sort of a broad term (not sure who coined it, but I suspect it was popularized by an early pioneer of Shift) that encapsulates the fun-loving, free-spirited, enjoy-yourself-at-all-costs approach to riding bikes that […]

On July 31st, a high-speed collision between a car and a bike on Stark Street in outer southeast Portland struck a nerve with readers and the incident left many with questions about how the law was applied.
The collision itself was horrific. The man driving the car, 23 year-old Lance Waddy, was going an estimated […]

LA Times’ “Road Sage” Steve Hymon.

One of the reasons some Portlanders take our bike policies so seriously and passionately (and are not shy about defending them) is because we realize that the microscope is on us. Portland is an important model that many other large cities look to (with even more urgency these days) […]

A reader sent me a link (thanks Charles!) to a company that has found a way to make helmets look cool — in a stylish Portlander sort of way. Check out the designs available from Copenhagen-based Yakkay:

They call it, “Brainwear for smart people.”

Apparently you buy the helmet first, and then select “your personal cover”. […]

If you want to work in the bike industry, this might be your lucky day. Team Estrogen (the top online retailer of cycling apparel for women) and Burley Design (based in Eugene) have both listed top-notch opportunities on the BikePortland Job Listings this past week.
See below for more information (and good luck if […]

It seems I jumped the gun with my story about the former McCall’s Restaurant site in Waterfront Park being turned into a cafe and bike retail, rental, commuter facility operated by Bike Republic.

I published my story after reading a story in The Oregonian that I interpreted as meaning it was a done deal. I […]

Low-traffic, tree-lined conditions will help make NE Going a great bike boulevard.(Photo: Google Streetview)

The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) has announced that NE Going Street will become the first street to receive funding for improvements as part of their Bicycle Boulevard Campaign.
The announcement today of the new “Get Going!” campaign comes just over two years since […]

Bikes await customers at Penn Quarter station in Washington D.C.(Photo: afagen/Flickr)

After several months of delay following the initial “launch”, Washington D.C. is basking in the glow of becoming the first large U.S. city to offer a bike-sharing system.
Will their approach work? Should Portland be jealous? Why weren’t we first?
Dubbed SmartBike DC and operated […]

Still from video — Watch it below

Streetfilms, the video-journalism arm of the New York City-based Livable Streets Network, has published a film that focuses on Portland’s signature bike parking treatments: bike oases and bike corrals.
The film features PDOT staffer Greg Raisman (who was behind Portland’s first-ever corral at N. Shaver and Mississippi), Belmont-area business owner […]