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Two construction projects in the region have direct impacts to bike traffic. Learn more below… Construction work on an ODOT project on Airport Way near the I-205 path is causing intermittent, short-term closures of the path between Marine Drive and Airport Way. The closures started last week (3/4) and will last through mid-June. Here’s more … Read more
From The Mayor’s Vision for Cycling in London (PDF).(Or could it be Naito Parkway in Portland?) Sorry for the delay in getting this out. I got back from Washington DC last night and had a crazy morning. So without further ado, here are the best bike stories and other stuff we came across last week… … Read more
Bike advocate Jerry Norquist (L) and Senators Dingfelder and Prozanski at the Oregon Active Transportation Summit in 2011.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) State legislators in Salem have tried time and time again to “start a conversation” about making Oregonians who ride bicycles pay for the pleasure of doing so. In recent memory we’ve had a draconian … Read more
The home field of America’s transportation team.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Masked by the state and regional agencies that disperse its grant funds and shrouded behind the veil of a federal government bureaucracy with 60,000 employees, the enigmatic and powerful United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) sits at the top of the transportation world. While in … Read more
It doesn’t look like much, but behind these doors is the nerve center for America’s premier bikeshare system.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) An unassuming warehouse in the industrial Navy Yards neighborhood of southeast Washington DC is the headquarters of America’s most successful and largest bikeshare system. I’ve been using Capital Bikeshare for a week now and … Read more
League President Andy Clarke addresses attendees of the National Bike Summit after a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill Wednesday.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
The official Bike Summit Bike Ride on Thursday morning rolled out under gorgeous skies.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Senator Chip Shields.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Many of you where surprised and disappointed when Oregon State Senator Chip Shields voted in favor of HB 2800, a.k.a. the CRC bill. Shields is a Democrat who represents the north and northeast Portland district that will be most immediately impact by this massive freeway expansion project. Shields’ vote … Read more
REI CEO and Interior Secretary nominee Sally Jewell just minutes before a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
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Douglas Meyer recommends that bike advocates tone down the rhetoric.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Some of the most important insights from the National Bike Summit (which wrapped up Thursday morning with a bike ride) came from an unexpected place. Douglas Meyer, a marketing and communications specialist with Bernuth & Williamson Consulting, shared research on Tuesday that … Read more
Kristin Dahl with Travel Oregon (L) explains economic impact data with Caroline Robinson, Legislative Assistant for House Rep. Greg Walden.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) ‘Bikes mean business’ is the official theme of this year’s National Bike Summit; but that idea hardly needs any help in being put front and center. The economic impact of bicycling has … Read more