Scott Mizee and Joe Lontai discussing the North Willamette Greenway trail at the St Johns Get Together last month.(Photo © J. Maus)

Our first Neighborhood Get Together, in St Johns last month, was a lot of fun and a definite success.
To keep the wheels turning, this month we're headed to Southwest Portland. Come join [...]

Hillsdale n'hood associationpresident and trails advocate Don Baack.(Photo © J. Maus)

Local newspaper, The Southwest Community Connection reports that the Hillsdale Neighborhood Association is in unanimous support of building a cycle track on Capitol Highway.
In their "Government Beat" column published Sunday, the paper wrote:
Don Baack, president of the Neighborhood Association, said the project is a long [...]

Screenshot fromPerformanceBike.com.

Peformance Bicycle, America's largest chain of bike retail shops, will open their latest location in downtown Portland.
According to the Portland Business Journal, Bitech Inc. (Performance's corporate name) signed a lease for 20,000 square feet of retail space at 1736 SW Alder St. (the Biz Journal reported it incorrectly as SE Alder).
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Looks like Multnomah County is set to redesign the "streetscape" on Scholls Ferry Road. What does this mean to you? Well, according to their press release (below), they want feedback on the design plan which will "identify ways to improve bicycle and pedestrian travel through the corridor."
If you ride on Scholls Ferry, check [...]

Advocacy group SWTrails wants to create conditions like this in Southwest Portland.(Photos © J. Maus)

Proclaiming that, "Southwest Portland wants to be Platinum too," SWTrails has released their latest list of "immediate actions" and recommendations for bikeway improvements in their part of the city.
SWTrails has worked with Southwest Portland residents and the City of Portland Office [...]

The City of Portland is moving forward with their plans to build a new bike and pedestrian bridge over I-5 that will connect the Lair Hill neighborhood with the South Waterfront district near the Aerial Tram.

One of the concepts drawn up for the new Gibbs Street bike/ped bridge.

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The latest map of proposed bikeway recommendations for Southwest Portland.(Click to enlarge)

A group of bicycle advocates in Southwest Portland have unveiled their latest map of proposed bikeway improvements. The group, SWTrails, has been working for nearly a year to come up with recommendations that they plan to present to the Portland Office of [...]

Front page of today's Oregonian

The Oregonian has a front page story this morning about a new potential bridge that would cross the Willamette River south of the Marquam Bridge.
Writer Dylan Rivera reports that it would be "Portland's first new bridge in 34 years," and that it would be unique among other Willamette River bridges in [...]

Bikes parked on Lewis & Clark campus.(Photo: Jonathan Maus)

The "problem" of not enough bike parking has reared its head at yet another place in Portland: Lewis & Clark College.
With growing bike use, a new school year, and the Bike Commute Challenge going full steam (L & C is a perennial front-runner in the 500+ employees [...]

Karen Stiles is worried about efforts to limit bicycle useon the Willamette Greenway Trail.(File photo)

Business is good for Karen Stiles who owns Waterfront Bicycle Rentals on the RiverPlace Esplanade just south of the Hawthorne Bridge. Part of the reason is because the popular Willamette Greenway Trail is all that separates her storefront from the [...]

Detail of route map with notes. Full map here (PDF).

The seventh ride in PDOT's monthly Bike Master Plan ride series will tackle the sometimes daunting routes in southwest Portland.
City bike coordinator Roger Geller says the focus of August's ride will be on Terwilliger and Barbur and will look at some of the challenges that [...]

Leader of SWTrails, Don Baack.(File photo)

The serpentine, hilly, and narrow roads that make up most of southwest Portland are a far cry from the idyllic bike boulevards of inner southeast Portland.
But that hasn't stopped a year-long effort by citizen activists and a group called SWTrails from working to create similar bike-friendly streets in [...]

Recommended Red Electric Trail Route.Click for PDF

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After months of planning, residents of southwest Portland, led by super-citizen trail advocate and Alice Award nominee Don Baack, have come up with a map of a new southwest bike network.
Baack, who leads the group Southwest Trails, has been working hard to garner neighborhood feedback and collaborate with PDOT [...]

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Yesterday I got a sneak peek at how bikes mix with the gleaming and futuristic new Portland Aerial Tram. Built by a cooperative effort between PDOT and OHSU, the new tram carries people from a new OHSU health center on the South Waterfront up to OHSU's Kohler Pavillion.
I was [...]

[The Ace Hotel is coming and they're bringing Dutch bikes with them.]

The Ace Hotel -- Seattle's "leading design hotel" -- is set to open in Portland on January 30th of next year.
I confirmed today with jorg&olif CEO Rob MacDonald that he is partnering up with the hotel to have a standing fleet of 6-10 Dutch [...]

Lawyer Mark Ginsberg has his work cut out for him on Monday. His office will finally get trials on all the remaining fixed-gear cases they've been handling (except for one which is scheduled for the next day).
Here's the word from Mark:
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Two weeks ago, I wrote about the new "hotel zone" bike lane markings on SW Broadway in front of the Heathman and Benson Hotels.
Since that post I've been observing both hotels to see how quickly they try to remove vehicles from the bike lane and how proactive they are in preventing encroachment in [...]

[Screenshot from PortlandMall.org]

TriMet has launched a new website to, "provide you with detailed information about the Portland Mall MAX Light Rail Project."
In addition to construction updates, photos, progress reports, monthly contests, and so on, the site has tips for cyclists navigating the construction:
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Carye Bye noticed something strange in the bike lane on SW Broadway this morning. There are new markings in the bike lane as it crosses SW Oak Street and in front of the Benson that read, "Hotel Zone Ahead," and "Slow, Hotel Zone."
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