Month: November 2007

Talk: Portland’s Cycling History

Buffered Bike Lane with a bike symbol and arrow pointing forward

Portland State University
Center for Transportation Studies
Fall 2007 Transportation Seminar Series

Speaker: Eric Lundgren
Topic: The Wheels of Fortune: Weather Prophet Pague, Governor Geer, & Portland’s Original Network of Cycle Paths

A little over a century ago Portland was building and enjoying a network of dedicated bicycle paths. For a brief and glorious half-decade, bicycles were a focus for road-planning and road-building. At a time when Portland seeks to gain Platinum-level recognition as a Bicycle Friendly Community, we can look back at a few of the ingredients in Portland’s first golden age of bicycling.

When: Friday, November 30, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm
Where: 204 Urban Center

Stolen Haro F2

Buffered Bike Lane with a bike symbol and arrow pointing forward

Haro F2 BMX freestyle bike stolen from Division Street Bike Gallery Copper color Black components front and rear pegs

More Info on Finetoothcog

Holiday Bike Drive – translators needed

Buffered Bike Lane with a bike symbol and arrow pointing forward

The Community Cycling Center is holding its annual Holiday Bike Drive, a wonderful event that provides helmets, bikes and bike safety education to hundreds and hundreds of deserving children in Portland.

Volunteers are needed to help translate for those families that don’t speak English. We need people who can help translate Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Vietnamese.

Positions include helping registrations, guiding kids through the process of receiving helmets and bikes, and bike safety education.

If you are interested, please email me at volunteer(at)communitycyclingcenter(dot)org, and I will provide you more information, including dates and shifts.

**** I promise that this will be one of the most rewarding volunteer experiences you’ve ever had. For more information about the Holiday Bike Drive, please read an excellent story and see the pictures from Bike Portland.

—
Neal Armstrong
Volunteer and Event Manager
Community Cycling Center

1700 NE Alberta
Portland, OR 97211
503-288-8864
www.CommunityCyclingCenter.org

Bicycles are a tool for personal empowerment and a vehicle for social change.

ODOT, neighbors work together for a better Bryant Street bridge

Bryant St. Bike/ped bridge

North Portland resident Tony Tapay and
ODOT’s Joyce Felton on the Bryant Street Bridge.
(Photos © Jonathan Maus)

It’s been over a year since I first shared the news that the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) was considering improvements to the ailing Bryant Street bike and pedestrian bridge.

Now, I’m pleased to learn that the Piedmont and Arbor Lodge neighborhoods — in close partnership with ODOT — are moving forward with their efforts to make the bridge safer, more attractive, and more well-known.

Read more

Gordon Price lecture

Buffered Bike Lane with a bike symbol and arrow pointing forward

Gordon Price will give a free presentation on the effective integration of transportation in high-density environments, with an emphasis on land use. Price is a former City of Vancouver, B.C. Councilor and current Simon Fraser University and University of British Columbia Professor who teaches, researches, and writes extensively on urban development and planning.

What: Gordon Price Presentation
Where: Portland Building, 1120 SW 5th Ave, 2nd Floor Auditorium
Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Questions? Contact:
Scott Cohen
City of Portland, Office of Transportation
scott(dot)cohen(at)pdxtrans(dot)org
(503) 823-5345

Eastside Theater History Bicycle Tour

Buffered Bike Lane with a bike symbol and arrow pointing forward

Portland has so many great old cinemas, many of them built during the “Golden Age”–1910s through 1930s.� This ride will explore theaters throughout the eastside–some still standing and functioning as cinemas, some just a memory.� After the full ride we’ll take in a movie at one of these grand palaces, bring appropriate cash if you’d like to join us! (End time is approximate.)� Also, there will be a potluck brunch at the hostel before the ride (11am cooking, noon eating), stop on by early to fuel up for the trip1

Sponsored By Urban Adventure League
Event Location: Hawthorne Hostel, 3031 SE Hawthorne Blvd
Contact: Shawn Granton
Contact E-Mail: urbanadventureleague@scribble.com
Contact Phone:
Website: http://urbanadventureleague.blogspot.com

Sellwood Bridge Meeting

Buffered Bike Lane with a bike symbol and arrow pointing forward

The fourth public event for the Sellwood Bridge project will be held on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the Oaks Park Dance Pavilion.

Presentations will be held every hour, beginning at 6:00 pm, and will be followed by a question and answer session. The goal for this meeting is to share information about the alternatives that have been selected for detailed analysis in the draft environmental impact statement (draft EIS), obtain public feedback on preferred bridge types for a replacement structure, and share information about potential funding sources.

Sellwood Bridge Project Website

Latest Headlines

Robotaxis will need to jump through these hoops before operating on Portland streets

Here’s the new ‘complete street’ coming to Cully Blvd

‘A Simple Machine’ film gets hometown premiere April 16th

Broadway bike lane to get aesthetic, protective face lift

From the Archives

With six kids and no car, this mom does it all by bike