Enjoying the Hawthorne the way locals do.(Photo © J. Maus)

In our sometimes heated citywide discussions over Portland's transportation policies, what often gets overlooked is the positive economic impact of our bike-centric reputation. Whether you ride or not, our bike-friendly roads and bridges have gotten us vast quantities of publicity in national and international media. [...]

Rivera's Facebook profile pic.

Noted transportation reporter Dylan Rivera was among 37 employees laid off by The Oregonian today.
Rivera was The Oregonian's main reporter on the complex and sometimes controversial Columbia River Crossing project. His most recent article (published this morning) focused on a report by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy that featured [...]

From Wweek.com.

Power to the Pedal is the title of the cover story in this week's Willamette Week newspaper. The story was written by Nigel Jaquiss (who won a Pulitzer for investigative reporting in 2005) and it focuses on how the Bicycle Transportation Alliance figures into the current state of bicycle advocacy in Portland. [...]

In case you're interested how the newly adopted 2030 Bike Plan is being covered by other media outlets (and what's being said about it by commenters), here is a quick round-up.
Willamette Week - Bike Plan: City Council Exacts Revenge on Saltzman. Cyclists Win. Did Saltzman, Too?
Bojack.org - Your sewer bill dollars at work -- for [...]

"... While we support the objectives of the Portland Bicycle Plan for 2030 that goes before the City Council today, adopting such a plan is far from enough." -- Opinion from Portland Tribune

With the 2030 Bike Plan up for adoption at City Council this afternoon, there is a fresh crop of stories about it in [...]

Today's front page.

The Oregonian published a front page story today on the 2030 bike plan titled, Two-wheeled vision carries hefty price tag .
In my opinion, the article (which was also sold to the Associated Press and is being picked up nationwide) frames the plan as a massive expenditure that's being shoved down the throat [...]

"The bicycle soldiers of Portland are as giddy as a cabal of neo-cons plotting regime change in 2002, and with good reason. There is a good chance that this week the City Council will approve the 20-year bicycle master plan..." -- Letter to the Editor in The Oregonian

With just a few days before Portland City [...]

Mr. Weir.(Photo: Kat Marriner)

Renowned two-wheeled explorer, travel writer, bike advocate, speaker and radio commentator Willie Weir recently took an unorthodox adventure. The man who has pedaled the most exotic locales across the globe loaded up his bike, joined his trusty companion Kat Marriner, and spent a week (short by Willie's standards) exploring the bikeways in [...]

At the start of the De Ronde.(Photos © J. Maus)

Oregon Public Broadcasting will air coverage of Portland's cult ride the De Ronde van Oeste Portlandia on their Oregon Field Guide program tonight.
The ride -- which is a loosely organized, grueling bike ride/race that traverses many miles of Portland's steepest hills -- attracted over 600 [...]

Cover of Oregon Cycling Magazine.

Oregon Cycling magazine -- a free, newsprint publication that covered bike news, racing and culture throughout the state -- will no longer be published. But according to sources -- and a job listing on Craigslist -- it might be already set for a comeback.
Oregon Cycling had been published since 1987 [...]

Cover of PSU's Metroscape magazine.

The Summer 2009 issue of Portland State University's Metroscape magazine features a cover story titled, "Bike Wars: Hostile forces — drivers and riders — go wheel to wheel in the streets. Can't we all just get along?"
The 17-year old magazine is published twice yearly by PSU's Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies. [...]

An "ultra-hip bike culture effete" and her fashion accessory.(Photo © J. Maus)

I noticed an interesting opinion piece in The Oregonian this morning that claims that the "newest local outdoor must-have fashion accessory" is the "walked bicycle."
In the article, author/journalist/bike commuter Lawrence J. Maushard of Southeast Portland, seems almost perturbed by the number of people who [...]

Screenshot of KGW video.

It was big news last week when the American Automobile Association (Triple A) announced they would begin offering roadside assistance to people on bicycles*.
Triple A is not the first company to offer such a service, but given their past of lobbying for automobiles (often at the expense of biking) the [...]

Tall bikes, yeah!- Watch video below- (Photo © J. Maus)

Wow. It's been amazing to watch how much publicity The Irondelles have gotten since their big public debut last week.
Since then, they've been on the Willamette Week blog, featured in a live, prime time news segment on KGW-TV (NBC in Portland) and they got an [...]

Let's hope Rep. Oberstar's love of biking seeps into his thinking on federal transportation policy.(Photos © J. Maus)

On Thursday (6/18), U.S. Congressman Jim Oberstar (D-MN) is expected to release a white paper outlining his plans for the forthcoming re-write of the federal surface transportation bill (Oberstar is Chair of the House Infrastructure and Transportation Committee).
The [...]

Mapes, seen here at the '07 National Bike Summit, spent four years working on the book.(Photos © J. Maus)

Author and reporter Jeff Mapes is living the first-time authors' dream. His book, Pedaling Revolution, is winning popular and critical acclaim, he has become a sought-after speaker, and it is selling at an unexpectedly brisk pace.
Last week, [...]

Filmmaker Clarence Eckerson on the Hawthorne Bridge last week.-Watch video below-

Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson was in Portland recently for Filmed by Bike. While he was here, he teamed up with Dan Kaufman from Crank My Chain CycleTV to put together a new, 3-plus minute film that takes a look at "Bike Rush Hour" on Portland's [...]

"It's the latest fake viral film from our car-centric Danish Road Safety Council. Slowing chipping away at Danish bike culture without worrying about facts and science."-- Mikael Colville-Andersen, publisher of Copenhagenize.com

Mikael Colville-Andersen, proprietor of the globally renown blog Copenhagenize, says a video of Danish cops handing out hugs and helmets to bike riders is nothing [...]

Mayor Adams being filmed by the PBS crew outside Council Chambersback in March.(Photos © J. Maus)

An upcoming, one-hour long PBS documentary will take a look at how three American cities -- Denver, New York City, and Portland -- are grappling with today's transportation infrastructure challenges.
The documentary, titled Road to the Future, is part of [...]

Conrad Miller (Jayme S. Hall) and Steve Jones (Elle Poindexter) in a screenshot from the film.-Watch the trailer below-

The Bicyclists, a new movie based on The Bicyclist webisode series, premieres tonight at the Hollywood Theater.
The entire film was shot in Portland and is steeped in local bike culture. The story revolves around Conrad Miller [...]