Safety advocates win on Clinton: city installs barricades during Division detour
A 4 pm ride on Clinton this afternoon will be changed from a protest to a celebration.
Michael Andersen (Contributor)
BikePortland Articles by Michael Andersen (Contributor)
BTA throws weight behind five new greenways east of 205
Of the five new advocacy campaigns we’re examining this week, the only one that’s almost certain to succeed is east of Interstate 205.
Jobs of the Week
Looking for your next professional adventure? Two opportunities were added to our Job Listings this week.
Get pumped: The 2014 Bike Commute Challenge kicks off next week
September is your best chance to get your co-workers to give biking a shot.
BTA looks to revive plan for protected bike lanes through downtown
Even though downtown is far and away the most popular destination for bike-commuting, it’s a yawning gap in the city’s network of low-stress bike routes.
As Congress drops Safe Routes to School, advocates ask Metro to step in
A Safe Routes to School ride in Portland in 2010. A new BTA campaign suggests tapping federal funding allocated to the Metro regional government to offer the program in suburban schools, too.(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland) Second in a week-long series about the BTA’s five new advocacy campaigns. Over the last two years, people trying to reverse the … Read more
Q&A: How Minnesota saves lives by spreading safety money thinly
Sue Groth, director of traffic, safety and technologyfor the Minnesota Department of Transportation,has been nationally recognized for overseeing rapiddrops in traffic fatalities.(Photos: MnDOT) Sue Groth’s job: use math and millions of dollars to stop injuries before they happen. The team Groth leads at the Minnesota Department of Transportation has probably saved a few hundred lives … Read more
Advocates work to build retailers’ consensus around a big city investment in NE Broadway
More than anything else in central Portland’s bike network, commercial corridors are the missing links.
The Monday Roundup: Biking to the Emmy Awards, removing lanes for safety & more
“Are you Uber? Well can you just be? Can we go?”
Comment of the Week: A good review for Director Treat
Portland’s top transportation bureaucrat is part of a class of bike-friendly Generation Xers moving into the top perches of government.
City switches plan for Division detour: Signs will point to Powell, not Clinton
Electronic signs will instruct drivers heading east at 26th Avenue to turn seven blocks south to Powell Boulevard rather than one block south to Clinton.