Bill would make bike-sharing benefits tax-deductible (updated)
The bill would help companies offer bikesharing passes just like transit or parking passes, but only to people who live and work in central cities.
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Study: Half of Portland bike riders don’t know how to trigger green lights
New research suggests that interminable red lights are a particular burden on new bike riders, because pavement markings aren’t easy enough to understand.
‘Know Your City’ wants to build a pedal-powered local history kiosk
Two years after Old Town’s Southwest Ankeny Street closed to cars and became Portland’s first human-only street, it continues to overflow with cool new ideas.
Do bikes get a free ride? Advocates’ infographic shows why not (updated)
One car damages the road about as much as 9,600 bicycles.
The Monday Roundup: Empty highways, King Tut’s death & more
King Tut, traffic victim … and 20 more of the week’s most interesting bike links.
An annotated map to the future of bicycling in downtown Portland
For months, the city has been mum about its ideas for how to spend $6.6 million for better biking and walking downtown. Let’s start the speculation now.
The appeal of e-bikes: 5 facts from a new study
Electrically assisted bikes are finally becoming common enough in the United States for people to start studying their many benefits.
Blumenauer urges Portland bike makers to forge new industry alliance
Portland is nationally known as the city with the highest number of bike riders. But when it comes to making bikes, our reputation is about quality, not quantity.
New bike-friendly ‘micro-apartments’: 200 square feet and no car parking
A rendering of the new micro-apartment buildingpermitted for Northwest Thurman near 23rd.(Image: Footprint Investments) The tiny house movement for apartment dwellers has arrived. Think 200 to 300 square feet, and a kitchen shared with five similar units. It’s a new milestone for the Portland area’s off-the-charts rental shortage, the third-tightest in the nation in the … Read more
Q&A: A visitor’s perspective on India’s shifting bike scene
With one week left in his course at Portland’s United Bicycle Institute, Muthanna sat down to talk about intersections, helmets, auto parking prices and other oddly familiar topics from a perspective I’d never heard before.
In Washington state, two election results worth watching
Two races to Portland’s north ended last night in interesting ways, for better or worse.
