‘Braking Cycles’ sets out to serve homeless youth with bikes, coffee and art
A non-profit startup wants to tap into bicycles and coffee to help Portland’s homeless residents.
Michael Andersen (Contributor)
BikePortland Articles by Michael Andersen (Contributor)
The world’s best bike festival kicks off … right now
Ingredients: one sun, one city and several hundred thousand bicycles.
On the podcast: The ‘invisible urbanism’ of traffic signals
Download Episode Portland’s traffic signal guru, Peter Koonce, in our podcast studio.(Photo J.Maus/BikePortland) When you change something about a traffic signal, people don’t notice. They simply obey. Well, mostly. Maybe that’s why signals have quietly become one of the most important and unique ways that Portland has made itself a better place for walking, biking … Read more
Is Portland’s newest urban corridor good or bad? City is asking residents
Portland’s planning department is trying to figure out if the rapid transformation of Southeast Division Street will become a template or a cautionary tale.
Full details about Saturday’s World Naked Bike Ride
The weather is looking fantastic so far.
TriMet weighs closing path near Willow Creek MAX station due to mischief complaints
The south end of the path, looking northfrom Baseline Road.(Image: Google Street View, 2012) A series of complaints about illegal and annoying activity on a narrow 350-foot path near the Willow Creek MAX stop has TriMet considering closing the route to the public. The link runs from the Beaverton MAX platform to West Baseline Road, … Read more
Outside the bike box: Four ways Portland’s bike believers can connect the city
Portlanders discuss the Williams Avenue bikeway in 2011.(Photos: J.Maus/BikePortland) Welcome to the first of a new series of guest posts: America’s Next Bicycle Capital. Two weeks ago, we invited Portlanders of every stripe to share ideas on how Portland can regain its sense of direction and keep using biking to improve our city. This first … Read more
The Monday Roundup: Bike lane retail boost, commuting by highway & more
This bike lane in Vancouver BC seems to have caused arestaurant’s business to briefly tank … and then soar.(Photo by M.Andersen/BikePortland) Good morning! Our roundup of the best bike links on the web this week is sponsored by Western Bike Works, longtime BikePortland sponsor and one of the city’s best bike shops. Here are the … Read more
Does it matter if politicians ride?
Empty bike racks at Portland City Hall.(Photo by J.Maus/BikePortland) In a downtown brimming with bike commuters, there’s still one Portland workplace that currently posts a solid 0 percent bike commute rate: City Council chambers. Portland’s five city commissioners aren’t opposed to bicycling by any stretch. But, since former Mayor Sam Adams left the council in … Read more
New Relic’s palatial in-office bike parking is Portland’s answer to the Google bus
The Portland tech scene’s version of Silicon Valley’s on-site laundry services and all-you-can-eat buffets: hiring a bike mechanic to come by the office for free on-site tuneups while the bikes’ owners are at work.
Guest perspective on the PBOT street fee: Kiel Johnson
The problem is not that we don’t have enough conversations about what should be done. The problem is that we refuse to accept that the world is not our ideal.
For Portland startup Project 529, fighting bike theft is just the beginning
A team of Portlanders has spent the last year quietly building what might be the country’s most ambitious bike-specific software company.