Comment of the week: Courts, not cops, as the core of bike theft neglect
Biking is so cheap and efficient that it’s a blip on almost every chart, including enforcement.
Michael Andersen (Contributor)
BikePortland Articles by Michael Andersen (Contributor)
What makes people stop at red lights? Other people, study finds
It might be peer pressure. It might be geometry.
Clackamas County wants Metro to fight climate change by widening roads
More than half the money in Metro’s climate plan is already slated to go to road construction and repair.
Portlanders say street parking is getting worse, but their neighborhoods are getting better
It looks as if the people have spoken.
Portland’s ‘Peacock Lane’ holiday light show will go car-free on busy nights
First it was the Last Thursday art festival. Then Old Town’s weekend entertainment district.
NYC investment company buys Alta Bicycle Share, hires former transit CEO
A local bike business that bootstrapped its way into the national spotlight and then ran into an avalanche of problems has sold.
Postcard from San Francisco: How not to build a parklet
if you build public parklets, put stuff in them.
National ‘Bicyclist Safety’ report out today gets actual safety trends backwards
A perfect example of what can go wrong when safety experts get stuck behind their own windshields.
The Monday Roundup: Getting real in WA, tolling the Golden Gate, and more
This week’s best bike links start with some heroically honest traffic projections from Washington state.
Comment of the Week: The slow, possible work of progress
Effective political tactics have a way of staying effective.
Oregon prepares to launch its opt-in test of a vehicle mileage tax
Oregon keeps inching toward its goal of creating a Prius-proof alternative to the gas tax.
Two years after Portland’s auto parking wars, apartment garages aren’t filling up
What happens when you build a garage that nobody wants?