Lents here we come!(Photo © J. Maus)

I'm very excited to announce that our monthly Get Together event is coming to Lents — the "crossroads of the Eastside."
Join us at Lents Commons (9201 SE Foster Rd) on March 30th from 5:30 to 7:30. We'll get to know what issues are on the minds of Lents residents [...]

The great news we reported last month is now official: The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) announced yesterday that they've received $2.96 million from the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) for two projects that will vastly improve biking and walking conditions in North and East Portland.
The Portland projects are two out of 27 that the [...]

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New logo and wooden sign.- Gallery -(Photos © J. Maus)

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This corner building at SE 6th and Belmont will soon be the River City Bicycles Outlet store.

River City Bicycles has purchased a new, 5,000 square foot building that will soon become a new outlet store selling discounted bikes and clothing just a few blocks from their existing location. The River City Bicycles Outlet is set [...]

At about 2:20 this afternoon, a woman attempting to cross E Burnside on SE 181st Avenue was hit by a MAX train. The woman remained conscious at the scene and sustained non life-threatening injuries (a possible broken leg).
According TriMet spokesperson Bekki Witt, they believe the woman on the bicycle was heading southbound when she heard [...]

The Sellwood Bridge.(Photo © J. Maus)

Members of the Oregon chapter of Americans for Prosperity, an anti-tax and limited government interest group founded by David Koch and Koch Industries, showed up in force on Thursday when the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners shared their plan to raise funds to help pay for the Sellwood Bridge. [...]

Adams and the banner at this morning's event.(Photos © J. Maus)

Portland Mayor Sam Adams led a press conference today to officially launch the Bureau of Transportation's new High Crash Corridor Safety campaign. Standing under a newly unveiled banner that stretches all the way across SE Foster Road (one of the city's most dangerous), Adams [...]

Schekel memorial sculpture at SE 37th and Taylor.(Photo: City Repair)

Matt Schekel was 27 years old when he was struck and killed while riding his bike by someone operating a produce truck who ran a stop sign at SE 37th and Taylor. The year was 1997. This Thursday, August 19th, Schekel would have turned [...]

Bike lanes on SE Holgate.(Photo © J. Maus)

Following a public meeting last week, Rick Bradford, the man behind a grassroots effort to get PBOT to remove the new buffered bike lanes on SE Holgate Blvd., remains unswayed in his opposition.
Bradford has posted an update on RestoreHolgate.com where he accuses PBOT of spinning the [...]

Live at 11! A plastic wrap booby trap discovered at Ladds Circle!(Screen grab from KATU-TV)

What started as a post to the Shift email list at 1:30 am yesterday morning has become the latest headline-grabbing story in Portland's ongoing fascination with the "bikes versus cars" dichotomy.
It started with this email from Lauren Hudgins:
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Opposition to new lane striping on SE Holgate continues.(Photo © J. Maus)

A couple that lives near SE Holgate Ave east of I-205 has launched a grassroots effort to undo the City of Portland's buffered bike lane project on that street. Rick and Trish Bradford are behind RestoreHolgate.com, a website that includes an online petition [...]

Spendid Cycles storefront.(Photo: Splendid Cycles)

In the latest sign that the cargo bike movement is flourishing in Portland, Joel and Barb Grover (both former employees of Bike Gallery) have opened Splendid Cycles on SE 14th and Belmont.
The store specializes in hard-to-find cargo bikes. Currently in the line-up are bikes from Copenhagen-based Larry vs Harry and [...]

Plenty of bike parking at the new Apex Bar on SE 12 and Division)(Photo © Andrew Kreps via Twitpic)

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Detail of PBOT plans for a new bikeway through Ed Benedict Park in Southeast Portland.
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Intersection of SE Clinton and 29th.

A group of parents in the inner-southeast Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood are fed up with what they say are people riding bicycles too dangerously down one of Portland's busiest bikeways -- SE Clinton Street. At issue is a school bus stop near the intersection of Clinton and SE 29th that services [...]

Location of collision.

The Portland Police Bureau are investigating a collision that claimed the life of a woman last night as she tried to walk across SE 39th near Powell Blvd at around 6:20 p.m. last night. The woman was struck by someone operating a motor vehicle.
Not many other details have been released yet, [...]

UPDATE, 2:30pm: Tom says he's raised all the money he needs to replace everything! Thanks to everyone for helping him out!

WTF Bikes owner Tom Daly.(Photo © J. Maus)

Remember Tom Daly, the guy who offers bike-alongs to make sure you get the right used bike off Craigslist? He was all set to open his [...]

Love the shadow.(Photo: Eric Deady)

Portland's Sellwood neighborhood is on a roll. Their new bike boulevard opened last month (although it's not 100% done yet) and now a new bike shop, Bike Commuter, is set to open this Friday.
Bike Commuter is located at 8315 SE 13th Street, just south of Umatilla, which is [...]

New traffic calming device on SE Spokane St.(Photo © J. Maus)

With their extensive plans for bike boulevards in the coming years (they've got 60 miles of them coming by 2013), it's clear that the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation has made residential street safety a high priority.
Residential streets don't garner the media attention that [...]

New "channelizing islands" at SE 7th and Spokane.(Photo: Alaya Wyndham-Price)

On Saturday, the City of Portland hosted a party and bike ride on SE Spokane Street in Sellwood to celebrate the opening of a new bike boulevard. The project's significance goes way beyond the speed bumps, "channelizers", and other infrastructure changes and marks what the [...]