Brooklyn residents clean up Powell Blvd overpass
The 9th Street overpass is a critical piece of pedestrian and cycling infrastructure.
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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
An epic, carfree, Portland to Seattle, multimodal adventure
The alarm clock on my phone buzzed and made chirping sounds as I rubbed my eyes. It was 5:00 am and we had an Amtrak train to catch at Portland’s Union Station. My panniers and backpack were loaded the night before with all of our gear for the four day trip. I just needed to … Read more
Pulling our kayak (by bike) from Tigard to the Tualatin River
We converted an old kid’s bike trailer into a kayak hauling machine. As our soggy spring rain let up and the sun peeked from behind the clouds I began thinking about another kayak adventure on the Tualatin River. Transporting a kayak to the dock by bicycle from the county line between NE Tigard and SW … Read more
