Year: 2014

A closer look at Williams Ave and Rodney greenway plans

N Williams project design meeting-1

PBOT engineers, project staff, and advisory
committee members answered questions
at their Tuesday meeting.
(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland)

If all goes according to plan, your experience riding north on N Williams Avenue will be much different by the end of this summer. After a long and winding public process, PBOT is close to finalizing a design and going to construction on a significant re-design of Williams Ave between Weidler and Killingsworth. At a meeting Tuesday, city staff and members of the project’s stakeholder advisory committee shared details and answered questions on both the Williams project and a companion project that emerged as a priority during the public process — a neighborhood greenway on N Rodney.

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A cold and windy commute: Did you ride?

People on Bikes Ladd's Circle-39

Layer up and get out there!
(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland)

Riding in the cold or the wind isn’t too bad; but put them together, throw on a good chance of significant snowfall, and some folks here in Portland start to think twice about riding their bike to work.

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white Trek 7000 2000

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Year: 2000
Brand: Trek
Model: 7000
Color:white
Stolen in Portland, OR 97239
Stolen:2014-02-4
Stolen From: Garage
Neighborhood: Healy Heights – Council Crest area
Owner: Douglas Golden
OwnerEmail: goldend(replace with at sign)easystreet.net
Reward: $100
Description: Trek 7000, white, purplish blue lettering, comfort seat, rear wheel rack, front fender, light mount on handlebars, tool bag under the seat
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 1410194

Cycle Oregon announces three rides for 2014, including new event

A cinematic theme to this year’s ride.

Cycle Oregon made several big announcements at their annual Kickoff Party that was held at the Portland Art Museum tonight.

In addition to their 27th annual Week Ride and their newer, family-oriented, Weekend Ride, there’s a brand new event aimed at a much more exclusive audience. “CO3” — which will be held June 19th through 24th — is billed as an “intimate” event that will be a way to “take your level of support for Cycle Oregon and its philanthropy even higher”. The ride will be limited to just 30 people, who will pay $3,000 each to take part.

Here’s more about CO3 from Cycle Oregon:

“… you’ll enjoy an intimate, high-end tour at the same time! This ride takes the CO experience and intensifies it in three ways: deeper community connections and impacts; more challenging routes; and amenities like farm-to-table meals and deluxe lodging. And you’ll even help choose a project that Cycle Oregon will donate $30,000 toward – from the proceeds of this ride.”

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Community Cycling Center names 6 new board members – 5 of them women

(Photos courtesy CCC.)

Northeast Portland’s nonprofit bike shop and biking-for-everyone advocacy group is welcoming some respected local bike believers onto its board of directors.

The new aditions represent more than half the organization’s leadership, and it happens to bring the gender split on the Community Cycling Center’s board to seven women and four men — an unusual ratio in a national bike advocacy movement where both the leadership and membership remain overwhelmingly male-dominated.

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Industry Roundup: Moves, expansions, hires, and more

Portland-based Sage Cycles now has
its titanium frames made in Tennessee.

Portland’s local bike industry is alive and well. How do we know? Companies are launching, moving, expanding, hiring, and generally taking the bike world by storm in a number of exciting ways.

But don’t just take my word for it. Check out list below of local industry news we’ve been collecting over the past month or so…

Major move and expansion for Portland Bicycle Studio

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Visualizing the cost of local transportation projects

More than just about anything else on BikePortland, we write about street projects — and, if our records are any indication, you like to read about them more than just about anything else, too.

But what do they cost, really? Sometimes it’s hard to visualize.

So we gave it a shot:

visualizing Portland-area transportation investments

Graphic by BikePortland. The area of each circle corresponds to the cost of each project.

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State grant will help PBOT in next phase of High Crash Corridor program

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SE Foster Road-6

Funds will help with design updates on
auto-centric streets like SE Foster.
(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland)

A grant from the State of Oregon will help the City of Portland continue their work to tame dangerous arterial streets.

Last Wednesday, City Council accepted an $85,000 grant from the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Transportation Safety Division. The funds — which amount to just 0.25% of the ODOT Safety Division’s $33 million annual budget — will be matched with $63,750 from the Portland Bureau of Transportation and will be applied toward, “specific engineering, enforcement, and education strategies and proven traffic safety countermeasures on identified Portland arterials” (according to Council ordinance).

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black Trek ?

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Year: ?
Brand: Trek
Color:black
Stolen in 97209, OR
Stolen:2014-01-28
Stolen From: 900 NW Lovejoy, stolen from the parking garage along with another Trek mountain bike
Neighborhood: The Pearl
Owner: James Thayer
OwnerEmail: jim(A T)thayers.org
Description: Black bike with off road tires and a basket attached to one side with bicycle bell.
Police record with: no
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike

New parks will improve bicycling in east Portland

New paths and maybe even a
pump track are coming to Beech Park.
(Graphic: Portland Parks)

The two new parks announced by the City of Portland last week will come with new bicycling opportunities for Portlanders — especially the estimated 1765 households that live near them

The proposed Beech Park (NE 126th and Beech) and Gateway Park & Plaza (NE 104th and Wasco) were pitched to the community by Parks Commissioner Amanda Fritz as a way to enhance underserved areas. “In east Portland, two out of every five households do not have easy access to a City park,” read a statement from Fritz. “That is in stark contrast to the rest of Portland where four out of every five households live within a half-mile of a park or natural area.”

While residents of east Portland have fewer parks, they also have fewer safe places to ride bicycles away from road traffic. The great news is that both of these parks will provide places where people young and old can ride in a pleasant environment.

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Job: Sales/Mechanic – Seven Corners Cycles!

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Job Title
Sales/Mechanic

Company/Organization
Seven Corners Cycles!

Job Description
We are now accepting resumes for a full-time mechanic/customer service/phone answering position. This job requires serious knowledge about bikes, but even more knowledge about quality customer service. This is not a job that will allow you to hide from the public. Nope. This is eight hours a day of being the first or second person on the floor, answering phone calls, working on all types of bikes and maintaining an unwavering positive outlook. As such, we ask that you have at least three years of bike shop experience. You will be expected to be flexible, friendly and at least a little bit funny. In return, you will be provided decent pay, employer-payed medical benefits, paid vacation, sick leave, and of course wholesale pricing on all kinds of bike stuff. Please resist the urge to call the shop. Thank you very much for reading…

How to Apply
E-mail 7cornerscycles@gmail.com

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