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The Monday Roundup: Race and safety, anti-theft petition and more
Fewer people in cars yield the right of way to black people than to white people, and other fascinating bike links of the week.
Landlord looks to reduce car ownership by buying a shared car for its tenants
The 2012 Subaru Forester is covering its own costs and seems to be helping motivate UDP tenants to give up their cars.
Community groups launch multilingual survey on where transportation fixes are needed
A coalition of nonprofits and community groups has created an easy-to-use online survey to ask more Portlanders what walking, biking and public transit improvements are needed most.
How can Portland get to 25 percent biking? New web game lets you try
The City of Portland’s official goal for 16 years from today is for one in four commutes to happen by bicycle, up from 6 percent today.
Election roundup: Mixed results for the region’s transportation issues
The cultural divide between Portland’s increasingly low-car-friendly inner suburban voters and its more auto-oriented exurban voters was visible in many of last night’s elections.
Portland’s bike festival is upon us – enter your Pedalpalooza rides by Friday
Four of the best weeks of biking you’ll see anywhere start June 5, but they only happen because people like you create them. Pedalpalooza, Portland’s annual open-source festival of bike fun, is welcoming anyone’s additions to its calendar until 11:59 p.m. this Friday, May 23. Anyone can keep adding rides after that, but they won’t … Read more
On the podcast: Fashion on bikes, from long skirts to Lycra
If you are what you wear, being yourself is often a challenge for people who ride bikes.
Profile: Nicholas Caleb, lonely voice for better biking in race for council
The best way to understand the only vocally pro-bike candidate in tomorrow’s city elections might actually be to watch him drive a car.
The Monday Roundup: The cost of zigzags, Swedish secrets and more
A detour on Indy’s downtown trail.(Photo: Curtis Ailes) Here are the bike links from around the world that caught our eyes this week: Commercial appeal: Much of the beautiful Indianapolis Cultural Trail has started to hum with new developments, but one section of the first-rate bike network hasn’t: Massachusetts Avenue, where planners decided to zigzag … Read more
At Employers Bike Summit, Novick praises health benefits of bike investments
Commissioner Steve Novick speaks Friday atRegence headquarters.(Photo: M.Andersen/BikePortland) Portland should be proud of its 6.1 percent bike commuting share, the highest of any large city, Transportation Commissioner Steve Novick said at a summit Friday that gave local employers advice on supporting bike commuters. “We beat Madison,” the city council member said. “We beat Minneapolis.” The … Read more
Major bike-fencing operation operates out of two Portland buildings, Lake Oswego police say
Fencing operations for stolen bicycles are currently operating out of two downtown Portland buildings, Lake Oswego police say.