Heather McCarey announced Wednesday that she’ll be leaving the Westside Transportation Alliance to become executive director of the newly formed Washington Park Transportation Management Association.
The federal “prevailing wage” law that Alta may have run afoul of in D.C., which requires government contractors to be paid at higher than market price, applies only to direct contracts with the District of Columbia or federal government itself, city spokeswoman Diane Dulken said.
Four years after a Portland woman won a social media campaign to get Burgerville to open its drive-throughs to bikes, a couple tweets is all it takes.
Not your ordinary bike shop.(Photo: Jeff Strange) Sky Boyer’s big bet that Portland’s Hollywood neighborhood could support a 10,000-square-foot headquarters for bike culture is looking smarter every month. In June, Outside Magazine named the shop Boyer owns, Velo Cult, one of the top 10 bike shops in the country. The joint “stands out as a … Read more
With this big project in the rear-view, we want to ask the BikePortland community what the Portland region has learned.
A new nonprofit advocacy group is setting out to be public transportation’s answer to the Bicycle Transportation Alliance.
Franklin Jones of B-Line got noticed by the New York Times.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Here’s the news that caught our eyes this week… — Part of the reason Portland’s economy hasn’t collapsed: big trucks aren’t the only way to move freight around a city. The NYT’s latest visit to Portland examines B-Line, Portland Pedal Power … Read more
Initially plagued with problems, Citi Bike’s main issue these days is keeping up with demand for the popular new mode of transit.
“They’re telling me he has a five percent chance of walking,” Lori Cooley said. “I’m trying not to believe that.”
Nobody in Oregon gets more of its tourist dollar from bikes than the Mount Hood region, and people in eastern Multnomah and Clackamas counties seem to be taking notice.
Before 2002, this was just another outdoorsy city on the West Coast; after 2008, it’s been just one more mid-size metro area with an increasingly lively central city. But something strange and wonderful happened in between.
