City crews installed sharrows on 6th Street in Newport this morning.(Photo: Daniella Crowder)

The small coastal town of Newport, Oregon continues to show exciting signs of life for bicycling.
Reader Daniella Crowder (she's also co-owner of the Bike Newport bike shop) tells us the City of Newport is installing sharrows this morning on 6th Street. Crowder [...]

Rap-tivism at its best.(Still from video by Joel Batterman) - Watch the video below -

As an advocate, what do you do when you feel passionate about a project and want to convince others to share your perspective? If you're former Portland resident and now Detroit-based transportation activist Joel Batterman, you get out some Legos [...]

Demonstration of a residential bike corral in Eugene by Paul Adkins.(Photo: Paul Adkins)

A Eugene resident has submitted a proposal to the City of Eugene to install on-street, residential bike parking corrals. On-street bike corrals are common in Portland, but we've yet to extend the idea into residential areas.
Noted bike advocate Paul Adkins and Chair [...]

What happens in places that have a mandatory, all-ages helmet law on the books? Do injury rates decline? Does bike ridership go down? That's the conventional wisdom; but is it true? Nearly three years after passing such an ordinance, the effect of Vancouver’s helmet law is difficult to ascertain. Our [...]

Kent Meyer, 78, of Hazel Dell, testified that "Our transportation system in this country is focused on the automobile, and we're paying a price for it."(Photo: Michael Andersen)

More and more, the suburbs are making big-city bike values their own.
The latest sign: Clark County, Portland's more auto-oriented neighbor to the north, passed a 20-year, $91 million* [...]

The new Delta Ponds Bridge in Eugene in all of its "visually strking" glory.(Photos: OBEC Consulting Engineers)

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Cascade's David Hiller with a souvenir newspaper clipping from a trail access battle.(Photo © J. Maus)

The twists and turns to the bike advocacy drama up in Seattle just keep on coming. After Cascade Bicycle Club — a non-profit bike event and advocacy group with 13,000 members — abruptly fired its longtime leader Chuck Ayers back [...]

[This story is by Portlander Ryan Hashagen (owner of Portland Pedalworks), who is traveling through Latin America for business and to investigate cycling culture, infrastructure and policies.]

Guadalajara's Via Recreativa (like our Sunday Parkways) occurs every week and attracts 150,000 people.(Photo © Ryan H.)

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Seattle news site Publicola reports that Seattle Children's Hospital has stepped up with a $2 million investment for biking and walking infrastructure. Here's a blurb from the Publicola story:
"Children’s plans to spend around $4 million over the next 20 years improving Northeast Seattle’s walkability, bikeability, and drivability as part of the hospital’s expansion and [...]

Concept drawing of a proposed two-cycletrack on Valencia Street in San Francisco.(Image: RG Architecture)

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Just finished watching My Commuted Commute, a video that I think everyone should spend five minutes to check out. A woman from New York City, Rachel Brown, shot helmet cam footage and offers commentary about what it's like to ride in one of the new, green-painted, curbside bike lanes. For all the positive [...]

Sounds reasonable to me.

Streetfilms has a new video on 20's Plenty for us, a campaign in the U.K. working to make 20 mph the standard speed limit in residential areas. The campaign is catching on quickly, with more and more U.K. cities adopting the policy all the time. Given that PBOT might be [...]

Go carfree on the day that corresponds to your car color (mine would be Tuesday).

Here's a interesting new campaign that would feel right at home in Portland. This Saturday, the City of Boulder Colorado will launch Driven to Drive Less, a new program to get people to go one day a week without their [...]

Rollin' on Front Street.-Slideshow below-(Photos © J. Maus)

Just got back from a week in Maui. While there -- besides swimming with dolphins and turtles and hanging with family and friends -- I spent some time in the island's most famous town, Lahaina.
As per usual when I explore a new town (see my reports from [...]

Screen grab from WeBikeEugene.org.

Got some great news from Eugene-based bike advocate (and juggler) Mike Seager the other day. He and a few other volunteer contributors have launched WeBikeEugene.org, "a site that could be described as Eugene's version of BikePortland."
Mike's the editor of the site and he's also a member of GreyMatter Jugglers, "Eugene's [...]

A pilot project in San Francisco will replace two parking spaces with a patio.(Photo: RG Construction)

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"...the City of Portland is 450,000 people. It’s a homogeneous community that is very white... We are a very diverse, disjointed city of 4 million people... So we’re a step behind Portland in what we’re trying to do." -- Michelle Mowery, bicycle coordinator for the City of Los Angeles

We've discussed how race relates (or doesn't) [...]

Blumenauer (in green jacket) avoids a taxi while riding on Sixth Ave.-Watch video below-

U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer went for a ride with bike advocates in New York City over the weekend and Streetfilms was there to capture the action.
Blumenauer rolled down the bike lane on Sixth Ave, calling the experience "pretty grim". However, when [...]

Bike elevators for bridges are just one way Seoul, South Korea hopesto reach 10% bike mode share by 2020.(Graphic: Chosun Ilbo)

Seoul, South Korea, a city with just 1.6% of their population regularly using bikes (Portland is at 6% by comparison) has set an aggressive plan to bump that up to 10% by 2020.
They've launched several [...]