🚨 Please note: BikePortland is currently on hiatus and only publishing guest articles. Learn more here. Thank you. - Jonathan 🙏
Framebuilder Ira Ryan (L) and lawyer Mark Ginsberg were among the 700 attendees at last year’s Alice Awards.(Photo © J. Maus) The Oregon Convention Center might have a hard time passing for any part of Paris, but that won’t stop the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) from trying. They’re just a few days away from their … Read more
Local historian and publisher of Cafe Unknown, Dan Haneckow, recently uncovered some interesting documents and videos about Portland’s first efforts to tame its traffic safety problems.
The bike box at SE Hawthorne and 7th in action.(Photo by Jay Lawrence/Polara Studios)
Local pedicab operator, Rose Pedals Pedicabs, adds to its fleet with new partnership. Casey Martell in action.(Photo © J. Maus) A recent pedicab partnership will result in many more of the three-wheeled vehicles on Portland’s downtown streets. Local pedicab operator Rose Pedals Pedicabs has joined forces with Bellingham, Washington-based Cascadia Cabs. Rose Pedals owner Casey … Read more
The Pornography of the Bicycle; now available nationwide. You’ve probably already heard of Portland’s Naked Bike Ride — an annual tradition that has grown in recent years to become one of the largest such rides in the world. But in addition to that (and several other, smaller naked rides that have cropped up recently), there’s … Read more
Traffic Division Captain Larry O’Dea.(Photo © J. Maus) The City of Portland’s campaign to remake several intersections with colored bike boxes and bike lanes is made up of much more than just markings on the pavement. Along with the new markings comes a significant change to the law; at all intersections slated to receive a … Read more
PDOT crews lay down the bike symbol.(Photos © J. Maus) This morning, in well-timed nod to St. Patrick’s Day, City of Portland crews finished the installation of the green bike box and bike lane at SE Hawthorne and 7th. They also installed new permanent signs adjacent to the intersection warning motorists to yield to bikes … Read more
Bike Walk Vote, which bills itself as “the political arm of the Portland area’s bicycling and walking movement”, has announced several more endorsements. This is their second round of choices, back in January they endorsed Chris Smith and Jeff Bissonnette. For Portland City Council, they have chosen to endorse Jim Middaugh and Randy Leonard. In … Read more
City Council candidate Jim Middaugh (foreground) chats up the crowd inside Roots Brewing at the BikePortland Social Hour. Council hopeful Chris Smith is in black on the left.(Photos © J. Maus)
My five year-old daughter tests out Portland’s new bike box. By Monday it will be painted green just like the colored bike lane next to it.Slideshow below(Photos © J. Maus)
“What this does is elevate bikes and peds as important and meaningful modes.”–ODOT Government Liaison Shelli Romero The wheels of change continue to spin toward a more balanced transportation system in our region. Yesterday, Metro’s Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation (JPACT), for the first time ever, voted unanimously to put bicycle and pedestrian projects … Read more
Eleventh annual Rites Of Spring bicycle ride Saturday, March 15th, 2008 Starts at 10AM or thereabout Gateway Transit Center, Portland, OR (meet in the south parking lot) Celebrate the Vernal Equinox! Dance and cavort among the bloomin’ flowers! Come out and worship the single ray of sunshine that heralds the coming of Spring! 13 mile … Read more