Portland based band, Hurtbird, has a great song on their new album titled, I Like My Bike. Nature vs. City is their third album and the band’s throwing a CD release party tomorrow.
Hurtbird is Ryan Hayes, Michael Young, Joel Holly and Brian Gumpert. Holly is on staff at the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) and Hayes says everyone in the band is “bike-friendly”. “Most of us commute by bike, two of us race road and cyclocross.”
My seven-year old daughter Eleni is the proud owner of her first city bike; meaning it came with fenders, a rack, integrated light, and more.
It wasn’t easy to find a well built kids city bike in local bike shops. Most kids bikes are just mini versions of adult bikes that aren’t really functional for getting around, riding in traffic, carrying stuff, and so on. When I saw this gorgeous, 24-inch wheeled, three-speed Batavus, I was immediately impressed. Eleni likes it too. Here are a few highlights:
Mayor Sam Adams hosted the Transportation Safety Summit at U of O’s White Stag Building in downtown Portland Tuesday night and a standing-room only crowd of over 200 citizens, advocates and city and state officials showed up.
The event offered an opportunity (albeit short at only two hours) to network, learn about Portland’s transportation safety concerns, and share feedback about how the City should, according to the Mayor’s official invite, “close the gap between the current state of traffic safety in Portland and the desired state.”
Tonight at 6:00 pm the Portland City Council will host a hearing and vote on the River Plan/North Reach project. The plan includes the first update to the alignment of the North Willamette Greenway Trail in over three decades.
The North Willamette Greenway Trail would connect the Eastbank Esplanade to Cathedral Park in St. Johns with a biking and walking path along the river. The project is still in the planning stages, but supporters of the trail — including the newly formed Swan Island Bike Commuters Group and the established non-profit NP Greenway — say inclusion of the trail in the River Plan is a major step forward.
Year: 2009
Brand: GT
Model: Transeo LTD
Color:dark green/black
Size:med
Serial: f080903167
Photo: http://mac.mt-2.net/pindownload/login.do?pin=OWXWR
Stolen in Portland, OR 97213
Stolen:2010-02-7
Stolen From: house garage at NE 43rd and Hassalo St
Neighborhood: near Hollywood transit station
Owner: Jim MacPhee
OwnerEmail: jmacphee@gmail.com
Reward: $250+
Description: looked like new (see pix) with these added accessories: planet bike full fenders, rear rack (grocery bag holder attached), front/rear lights, kickstand – larger reward for information that allows thief to be caught with bike
Police record with: Portland Police
Police reference#: 10-001683
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Year: 2008
Brand: Scattante
Model: XRL CX
Color:off white
Size:57″
Photo: http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/9688/img1170j.jpg
Stolen in Portland, OR 97215
Stolen:2010-02-17
Stolen From: From our home on SE 53rd Btwn SE Stark and Burnside
Neighborhood: Mt Tabor
Owner: Chris Williams
OwnerEmail: louspapa@gmail.com
Reward: $200
Description: It is off white with blue/orange panel paint and blue handlebar tape. It has a single chainring setup to a 9-speed rear and older Rolf wheels & fenders. Tail lamp, head lamp, saddle bag.
Police record with: TC
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
A new Portland-based transportation activism group, the People’s Department of Transportation (as in PDOT, not to be confused with the Portland Bureau of Transportation, PBOT), has released their first video and press release.
I’ve heard murmurs about this group coming together but now it’s official (read their introductory blog post at PDOT.org). The video released today features Elly Blue (former managing editor of BikePortland) talking with Portlanders about a new wall erected by an “activist organization calling itself the Oregon Department of Transportation” along 82nd Avenue.
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.
The article paints the passage of the 2030 Bike Plan as a climactic moment for the BTA and characterizes the plan’s 5-0 support from City Council as demonstration of the organization’s clout.
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced winners of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants. The only project to be awarded in Oregon was $23.2 million for “Portland’s Innovation Quadrant – SW Moody St. & Streetcar Reconstruction” (total project cost is $66.5 million).
Many in the local bike scene were dreaming about a $98 million package Metro applied for that would have connected and built trails on the West Side and would have created America’s first world-class neighborhood bikeway system in North and Northeast Portland.
Year: 2005
Brand: Novara
Model: Bonanza
Color:Blue
Size:16″ ?
Stolen in Portland, OR 97209
Stolen:2010-02-17
Stolen From: 24 hour fitness in the Pearl District.
Neighborhood: Pearl District
Owner: Alan Yanda
OwnerEmail: ayanda@aii.edu
Description: Blue Novara Bonanza mountain bike with slick schwalbe tires, REI plastic fenders front and back, disc breaks, cat eye front and rear lights.
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Year: 2004
Brand: Schwinn
Model: Islander Cruiser
Color:Red
Stolen in Portland, OR 97215
Stolen:2010-02-16
Stolen From: 50th and Hawthorne
Neighborhood: Mt. Tabor
Owner: Robert Roy
OwnerEmail: robroy78@gmail.com
Description: The cruiser was an “islander,” mostly red and white with silver fenders and a big metal basket on the front.
Police record with: Portland Police Bureau
Police reference#: 10-13399
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike