State wants your advice to prioritize Portland-area biking and walking projects
If awarded, the federal grants from this process will go to projects on being built from 2018 to 2021.
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The Monday Roundup: Bike lane maps, mandating reflective cars and more
This week’s best bike links start with a series of maps of U.S. cities with only the bike infrastructure showing.
Comment of the Week: Does Vision Zero require gravel freeways?
A freeway outside Delft, Netherlands.(Photo: Edwin van Buuringen) The most important concept in American streets advocacy right now seems to suggest that all rapid car travel should be abolished. That’s the perspective of BikePortland reader Tait, who argued semi-satirically this week that if preventing one person’s death is truly more important than fulfilling everyone else’s … Read more
Two weeks to two wheels: Portlanders share bikes and skills with new pay-it-forward program
Transitional housing tenants earn free bikes by helping teach each other how to fix abandoned ones.
Dear everywhere else: This is how to do a detour. Sincerely, Multnomah County
A county traffic safety specialist assembled a perfect Portland-quality detour on the Burnside Bridge Thursday.
Right-hook risk drops with flashing “Yield to Bikes” sign on NE Couch
One of Portland’s most unusual bike-lane intersection treatments seems to be working.
Bike-powered grocery delivery service aims for major expansion
The Lents-based nonprofit home-delivers $20 worth of organic produce to its customers each week.
Portland’s joyfully nerdy new Multimodal Singers quartet brings poetry to motion
The group of four architects writes, composes and sings about the merits of biking, walking and riding mass transit.
Bike/walk advocates unveil plan for Oregon to zero out road deaths
The report describes itself as “A Unifying Vision for Street Safety for Oregon.”
Weak links: City finds traffic hot spots on neighborhood greenway system
The city’s bicycle coordinator described inner SE and NW as “a real problem area” for neighborhood greenways.
Milwaukie and Tigard call for regional Safe Routes to School funding
This fall, Metro Councilors will have the opportunity to allocate funding to make safe routes to school for every student in the Metro area.
The Monday Roundup: Distracted driving in action, reflective spraypaint & more
This week’s best bike links begin with a terrifying video of the moments right before traffic crashes.