The tale of TriMet’s #17 and how to lie with a bus schedule
Small route changes can have big negative impacts, and your voice matters in preventing them.
Guest Contributor
BikePortland Articles by Guest Contributor
Hi! I’m Erin and I’m excited to move to Portland
I’ll be sharing my perspective as a new Portlander. Hope you’ll follow along!
Guest essay: A plan for a ‘passoire’-filled Portland
A seductive concept inspired by the simple strainer.
Guest Article: How to make Sunday Parkways better
Guest author Andrew Lindstrom compares Portland’s Sunday Parkways with the Colombian event it was modeled after.
Guest Article: My brush with an enraged driver left me shaken to the core
My disposition turned from annoyance to bone-chilling terror once I heard him say the word “gun.”
Brooklyn residents clean up Powell Blvd overpass
The 9th Street overpass is a critical piece of pedestrian and cycling infrastructure.
Riding adaptive mountain bikes at Newell Creek Canyon Nature Park
Adaptive mountain bikes (aMTBs), are designed to allow people with disabilities to ride on rugged terrain.
Guest Article: Let’s teach high schoolers how to take transit
A Grant High School student needs help turning an idea into reality.
Guest Article: Despite bike lane, Vancouver Ave is designed for cars. Our children deserve better
It’s unacceptable these blocks are designed for car throughput above all else.
Guest Article: Why PBOT’s top maintenance staffer joined us for a bike ride
Story and photos by Cathy Tuttle People who bike every day are the folks who ground-truth poor maintenance. We intimately experience gutters filled with leaves and plastic bike lane wands broken in the same locations day after day. We see street trees dying, and giant potholes reappearing over and over on what look like war-torn … Read more
5 things that might happen now that Oregon just slashed parking mandates
This article is by Sightline’s Michael Andersen and Catie Gould. On Thursday, Oregon approved the largest rollback to parking mandates in modern US history. The unanimous vote by the state’s land use commission came through an unusual channel: an administrative action, ordered by the governor, that breathed new ambition into the broadly written land use … Read more
