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Henry Schmidt was recovering at OHSU Saturday.(Image: KATU.com) A Lewis & Clark student is recovering from traumatic injuries after being hit by a vehicle that left the scene of a collision on Southwest Barbur Boulevard early Friday morning. Henry Schmidt, 20, had been biking home after working a late shift at Pok Pok restaurant, and … Read more
It may be a hot Friday afternoon in the middle of August, but the president of the Oregon Senate has spent it making calls to key legislators, counting votes for a possible resurrection of the Columbia River Crossing.
Homebuilders have discovered low-car life in Portland. But until now, nobody’s made a comprehensive effort to help Portlanders locate low-car homes.
Twelve years after Portland Streetcar put rails onto to city streets, it’s still a Portland rite of passage to crash your bike on its tracks — and it’s still a maddening problem for the handful of people trying to solve it.
If you want to understand how two key bridge crossings on Southwest Barbur Boulevard are working today, take a look at this screen capture.
Grocer New Seasons is tearing up a set of bike staples that turned out to be too close to its new building on North Williams.
Some commuters and exercisers used the upper sidewalk of the Steel Bridge Tuesday morning.(Photo: M.Andersen/BikePortland) Update 3:59 pm: The bridge lower deck is now open, and the city’s Diane Dulken writes to confirm that the city, not Union Pacific Railroad, is responsible for the lower-deck cameras related to this closure. Portlanders’ unscheduled trip into the … Read more
People crossing the Steel Bridge by bike and foot Monday evening should take the upper-deck lane or sidewalk or reroute to another bridge.
This amazing interactive street design tool, designed for touchscreens, is perfect for quickly visualizing different ways to allocate road space for a given width.
What if talking on a cell phone behind the wheel isn’t so dangerous after all?
Portland has been exporting its biking expertise for years, but the explosion of independent publishing is helping that happen faster than ever.
A fleet of major projects to improve downtown Portland, East Portland, SE Foster Road, SW Barbur Boulevard and Southwest Portland’s neighborhoods will be competing for dollars and attention with freight-related projects at an open house next week.