Safety in numbers; gas taxes; electric bikes; child safety; parking; moving house. – The stats are in: Car culture is on the decline, according to an analysis in Esquire Magazine by Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com. Silver developed a regression model that shows that the past year’s decline in driving is not entirely due to unemployment … Read more
Headed down Ladd’s to the FarmersMarket on Saturday morning(Photo © Dan Liu) Friday, May 8 – If you’ve never participated in a bike move, that iconic Portland barnraising event, here’s your chance! It’s a long one but a good one, from Sellwood to Piedmont. Details on the Shift Calendar. Want to host your own bike … Read more
Traffic on the Hawthorne.(Photos © J. Maus) Traffic on the Hawthorne Bridge can be bad. And I don’t mean car traffic. Roger Geller, the city’s bicycle coordinator received an email from someone who witnessed a horrifying, nearly tragic crash on the Hawthorne Bridge during last Wednesday’s evening rush hour. The witness, who asked to remain … Read more
Portland Farmers Market has announced that this May will be their first-ever Bike Month at the Market. Throughout the month, the Saturday PSU Market will host a bike booth featuring bike displays, bike inspections and biking experts to provide market-goers with the information and inspiration to tote their produce and artisan foods home on two … Read more
Here are BikePortland’s traffic stats from the month of April: Visits – 162, 146 Average visit length – 00:03:22 Pages viewed – 386,703 Stories posted – 109 Top Five Stories (*In terms of pageviews analyzed by Google Analytics): 1. Massive turnout at “De Ronde” 2. One hour, 22 citations at Clinton Street stop sign 3. … Read more
“[The Green Fund] is a pool of money that works again and again as PSU takes loans from this pool and saves money by replacing utilities with sustainable ones, to pay back to the loan.” –Brendan Castricano, PSU Student Senate Starting yesterday, Portland State University students are voting on a proposed $5 per term student … Read more
Sam Adams speaking at lastnight’s BMP Open House(Photo © J. Maus) It’s a classic story in Portland by now — you total your car, assess your options, and decide the time is right to go carfree. It looks like the latest person to play out this story will be our mayor. Mayor Adams walked away … Read more
Rigoletto company members with their bikes (Photos © Elly Blue) We were pleasantly surprised a few weeks ago to receive an invitation to attend and blog about the opening night of Portland Opera’s latest production, Verdi’s Rigoletto, which opens this Friday, May 8th at 7:30pm at Keller Auditorium downtown. Sounds great, we said, but what … Read more
Good news, bad news, traffic gossip, and inspiring photos – If you only click through to one of these stories today, make it this one: Streetsblog manages to make the mechanisms of federal transportation funding fairly understandable, explains why the last federal transportation bill (SAFETEA-LU) is inadequate, and outlines what is needed for the new … Read more
Get dolled up for the pretty dress ride on Sunday!(Photo © J. Maus) We’re putting up the weekend guide up a little early this week to help you all make your plans. Get the weekend started tonight with Clever Cycles’ Heels on Wheels party. Dress up as fancy as you like and come check out … Read more
Flowers placed as a memorial near the location where Bernick was hit.(Photos © Dan Liu) Last night, BikePortland news intern Dan Liu and I visited the scene of the collision that killed Cary Bernick on Monday evening. We timed our arrival to match that of the crash itself, shortly after 5pm. There wasn’t a ton … Read more
Anti-bike bias and the law; Job sprawl; Carfree Mayor; Wheelchair rights; Bike parking crunch; Shrinking cities; Paving the planet. Time for the Monday Roundup. There’s a lot of worthwhile news this week, so take a deep breath, get another cup of coffee, and pace yourself. – Exxon Mobil had a great 2008, earning over $45 … Read more