Local dad calls for ‘super-legal slow-down’ of Powell Boulevard during Monday rush hour
The father of two Cleveland High School students says that traffic injuries like the ones that are common on Powell Boulevard are “inexcusable and unnecessary.”
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Sunday Parkways rings in the start of summer in East Portland
Residents of Portland’s most kid-heavy quadrant turned out by the thousands on Sunday for what’s become an East Portland Mother’s Day tradition.
Sunday morning collision at 26th and Powell severs leg of man on bike (updated)
Police said preliminary information indicated that the man was biking south when a northbound truck turned left in front of him.
The Friday Profile: Boris and Melissa Kaganovich, Portland’s merry pranksters of street reinvention
The pair hope to leave Portland with an unfamiliar and powerful insight: sometimes, improvisation works.
As festival season begins, Naito’s bike lanes are walkers’ only refuge
Though the problem isn’t new, more people seem to be wondering this spring if something could be done about it.
Another memorable car/bike encounter on Williams
Not perfect. And yet…(Photo: J. Maus/BikePortland) A short item shared on Reddit’s community of Portlanders (also known as /r/Portland or occasionally Preddit) caught our attention last night. It was shared by user pkulak:
As Obama visits, three words of advice for Thursday and Friday trips downtown
To paraphrase the city’s official press release only slightly.
Language Matters: Three rhetorical tricks bike advocates could learn from Uber’s Plouffe
The former Obama campaign manager’s 13-minute stump speech for Uber was a rhetorical sight to behold.
Wilsonville company promises ‘perfect shifting’ from phone app and hardware combo
The rising tide of products that combine physical objects with mobile apps has come to do-it-yourself bike maintenance.
Employer Bike Summit May 15 will have a theme: ‘Reclaim the City Crown’
The 2013 summit drew dozens of workplace advocates.(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland) Portland’s annual Employer Bike Summit, a half-day gathering for people working to increase bike commuting in the area, is scaling up its vision a bit. “Big bike projects are coming to Portland in the next year,” co-organizer Steve Hoyt-McBeth, a project manager for the Portland Bureau … Read more
Spotted on the 50s bikeway: Billboards, Portland-style
Advertisements aren’t always a blessing. But ads follow eyeballs.
Random acts of bikiness: Free balloons kick off Clinton Street celebration month (photos)
With shouts of “Happy Birthday, Clinton Street,” a group of grinning volunteers distributed about 225 balloons to passing pedalers Friday.