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Year: 2015
Industry Ticker: All 68 Showers Pass products now available at Tigard bike shop
The display.
(Photo: Showers Pass)
(Photo: Showers Pass)
Portland-based Showers Pass is doing something cool this weekend. They’re celebrating the opening of a shop-within-a-shop at the huge new Western Bikeworks location in Tigard.
Nike building paved path to connect headquarters to MAX station
Map from internal Nike employee email showing location of Nike Woods Connector Trail. The MAX station is on the bottom and the Nike campus is on top.
Nike is building a new paved path that will make it easier to bike, walk, and take transit to their World Headquarters in Beaverton.
Portland may require developers to offer residents, employees $600 for biking or transit
Downtown employer New Relic already offers in-office bike parking, but it doesn’t buy you a bike. Not yet.
(Photo: New Relic)
(Photo: New Relic)
Got a new job in Portland? Have a new bike.
Deals like that could become common under a set of proposed rules being discussed by the City of Portland that might require developers or property managers to give each new resident or on-site worker $600 that could be spent only on non-car transportation: a nice new bike, six months of TriMet passes, four years of bike share memberships, or whatever.
The one-time payment would trigger at the time of move-in or hire. The goal is to make Portland’s streets cleaner and more efficient by reducing auto use.
Tilikum, a Metaphor
I stopped and captured this the other night on my way home. To me it just encapsulates everything wrong with the new facilities in one potent metaphor. As Paul Souders said, “assume the bike facilities are steering you AWAY from a good path”.
TriMet will hand out free lights and safety gear at ‘Be Seen Be Safe’ event
Showing off a pair of high-viz gloves at a TriMet safety event in 2010.
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
In what has become something of an annual event to encourage walkers and bikers to be more visible, TriMet is hosting a “Be Seen Be Safe” event tomorrow (11/11).
A first for Washington: Green paint for bike lanes on a state highway
Drawing courtesy Washington DOT.
The Washington State Department of Transportation is going green to try and make a large highway intersection a bit safer to ride a bike on.
Safe routes to school coalition takes message to east county tonight
The flyer for the event was written in four languages.
Tonight in eastern Multnomah County an unusual cast of characters will gather to speak out in support of safer routes to school. I say unusual because biking and walking advocacy doesn’t often happen east of I-205.
The event tonight is being organized by the For Every Kid Coalition in partnership with the Community Alliance of Tenants.
This coalition is pressuring regional politicians and policymakers to dedicated more funding toward Safe Routes to School. Specifically, they want $15 million in federal “flexible funds” to go toward the program. The effort is one of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s five main advocacy campaigns that emerged after federal set-asides for the Safe Routes program have all but dried up.
How Karl Moritz uses bikes to recover from a traumatic brain injury
Karl Moritz and his custom build.
(Photo: Jessie Kwak)
(Photo: Jessie Kwak)
The last time we checked in on Karl Moritz he was back on the bike and had tackled his first century ride. Our new writer Jessie Kwak sat down with him last week to learn about the latest ways he’s using cycling to recover from his traumatic brain injury. – Jonathan
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Many BikePortland readers may remember Karl Moritz’s story, after a crash in Ladd Circle in June of 2010 left him in a coma for three weeks.
With Blumenauer in his corner, Novick pressures ODOT for changes on Barbur
Almost half of southbound rush-hour traffic on Barbur turns right here. Converting the right lane to exit-only could boost driver safety on Barbur while making room for continuous bike lanes to the south.
(Image: Google Street View)
(Image: Google Street View)
Consensus seems to be building around a new concept that could finally create continuous bike lanes on state-run Barbur Boulevard.
And now, support for changes to a notoriously dangerous section of Barbur have a new ally: U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer.
Industry Ticker: New products from Portland Design Works and North St. Bags
Portland Design Works’ new City Rover and the “Scout” from North St. Bags.
Two of our favorite local companies have just announced new products: Portland Design Works has a new headlight and North St. Bags just went big with a whole new line of duffel bags.