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Bring the kids!(Photo © J. Maus) Bike to Blazers is this Sunday (4/3)! I hope you’re ready to show the NBA how we roll in Portland. We still have a few tickets left, so if you haven’t grabbed some already, you can order them online here (don’t forget to use passcode “bikeblazers” to get special … Read more
The old sign only mentioned bikes…(Photo © J. Maus) Now it adds strollers and luggage.(Photo: Mitch L.)
The City of Portland is hosting their first annual Safe Routes to School Spring Kick-Off on Saturday April 2nd. The event will take place at Beach School (1710 N Humboldt) from 10 am – 2pm. More info on the City’s website
Screen grab from OregonManifest.com. The list of entrants for the 2011 Oregon Manifest Design Challenge is now posted online. The builders, who will compete to build the ultimate utility bike, include some of the most innovative and respected builders in America today. In total there are 34 builders from 11 states and six student teams. … Read more
Looking west into the gulch. The yellow lines are proposed trail alignments from a 2004 study.(Photo: Portland State University) Next week (4/6), the Portland Parks Board will hold a public meeting in St. Johns. The meeting notice caught my attention because one of the three “important” agenda items is the Sullivan’s Gulch Trail. Why am … Read more
Trek CEO John Burke, shown here riding on Portland’s Eastbank Esplanade, will make the case for bicycling on Capitol Hill today.(Photo © J. Maus) Today, the CEO of Trek Bicycle Corporation (America’s largest bike company), John Burke, will make the case for bicycling on Capitol Hill. Burke has been invited by the House Transportation and … Read more
The Oregon State Capitol.(Photo © J. Maus) A few quick notes about bills of interest working their way through the legislature… HJM 22, the bill urging the federal government to fund the Columbia River Crossing highway expansion project that has kicked up quite a hornet’s nest of opposition from both sides of the aisle, will … Read more
See our slideshow below.(Photo © J. Maus) It’s been a full day of speeches, conversations, networking and info sessions here at the Oregon Active Transportation Summit. The event is a yearly effort to bring together Oregon’s transportation advocates to share and gain knowledge. Tomorrow is the climax of the Summit when the few hundred attendees … Read more
A slide from Blumenthal’s presentation. Tim Blumenthal of Bikes Belong (an industry-backed, non-profit bike advocacy group) helped kick things off here at the 2011 Oregon Active Transportation Summit in Salem today by sharing a presentation titled, 12 Trends That Will Help Bicycling Grow. Here’s the list: Bike sharing systems linked with infrastructure investment: “It’s a … Read more
“We believe that there are important unresolved questions that demand further scrutiny before the commitment of additional public dollars to this project.” 20 Oregon legislators — 8 Republicans, 12 Democrats — have issued a letter of concern over the Columbia River Crossing highway expansion project. The letter, dated March 28th, comes on the heels of … Read more
[BikePortland is down in Salem today for the Oregon Active Transportation Summit. We’ll be reporting from Salem today and tomorrow.] Still in beta. Daniella and Elliot Crowder, owners of the Bike Newport bike shop, unveiled their plans for a new iPhone app today. The new ‘Cycling the Oregon Coast’ app is currently in beta form … Read more
PBOT has announced the first open house for their N. Williams Ave Traffic Safety Operations Project. Learn more about the project in our story from January and get details on the open house below… Come take a look at potential N Williams transportation improvements – to the bike lane, auto lanes, bus stops and crosswalks … Read more