14 Clinton Street businesses celebrate bikeway birthday with discounts this week
Neighborhood advocates have teamed up with local businesses to celebrate the huge role bikes play in Clinton Street’s commercial prosperity.
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The Monday Roundup: Testing the Idaho stop, the origin of helmets and more
This week’s best bike links begin with one man’s six-month test of treating stop signs as yield signs and red lights as stop signs.
Comment of the week: On city streets, what is passing and speeding even for?
The video is worth watching all the way to the end; it keeps getting funnier.
ODOT says $3 million project to raise overpass 18 inches has no budget to add a sidewalk
The Strawberry Lane bridge south of Clackamas is the only crossing of Interstate 205 for one mile in each direction.
Your one-week warning to create Pedalpalooza rides is … right now
Portland’s annual bike fun festival begins three weeks from today, and that means this.
At die-in, ODOT says it’s already doing its best to improve street safety
“These high-crash corridors are dangerous for all Portlanders, not just people who are walking or biking.”
BikeLoud’s “die-in” this afternoon aims to keep safety pressure on ODOT
The volunteer group says it’s tackling an underlying traffic safety issue: urban highways managed by the state rather than the city.
City hires project manager for high-profile downtown protected bike lane project
The project management gig that one local planning pro has referred to as the “job of the year” has been filled.
Support builds for walking and biking improvements on east side of Naito Parkway (updated)
Even where it isn’t blocked, Naito’s existing goatpath often spills over during festivals.(Photo: M.Andersen/BikePortland) A week after Transportation Commissioner Steve Novick’s office called out Naito Parkway for failing to provide “a minimum level of safety for the traveling public” along Waterfront Park, other central-city institutions are weighing in.
Anti-speeding bill nears vote in Salem as activists plan “die-in” at ODOT offices
As Portlanders look for ways to change the culture of streets like Powell Boulevard, state legislators are nearing a vote on a bill designed to do exactly that.
Utah and Massachusetts jump past Oregon in bike-friendly state rankings
For the second time ever, Oregon didn’t make the top five.
The Monday Roundup: Salt Lake’s protected intersection, Jiu-jitsu vs. bike thief and more
This week’s best bike links begin with a little bit of Utrecht landing in Utah.