The Monday Roundup: Cargo bike parking concept, LeBron at Critical Mass & more
An elegant, functional parking solution for cargo bikes, and other great bike links of the week.
Michael Andersen (Contributor)
BikePortland Articles by Michael Andersen (Contributor)
The Friday Profile: Jeffrey Cramer, Portland’s stolen-bike good Samaritan
When Jeffrey Cramer bought the bike for $10 last Friday night, he wasn’t planning to return it to anyone. He just needed a way to get home, because someone had stolen his own bike a week before.
Special report: How Portland stopped building neighborhood greenways
If Portland has contributed any innovations of its own to the craft of designing great streets, it’s this two-word idea: neighborhood greenways.
Planning starts on west-side path network’s missing link: Hillsboro to Banks
As the metro area’s rugged east side races to build its recreational bike network, the gentler, flatter west side is showing how persistence (and a steady stream of money) can pay off.
TriMet to build fewer bike lockers and more covered bike racks at new transit stops
Portland’s regional transit agency is installing far fewer $50-a-year bike lockers than it used to and adding more short-term parking near stops as it rethinks the ways people in cities tend to combine bikes and public transit.
County chair candidates Kafoury and Francesconi talk transportation at debate
Candidates Deborah Kafoury and Jim Francesconi found some modest differences at a debate on the subject Tuesday.
In some central Portland neighborhoods, one in 10 new homes is now tiny
In some central Portland neighborhoods, more than one in 10 new dwellings is now an accessory dwelling unit, or ADU.
Editorial: A pro-bike-lane argument that seems to work – ’23 Powell Boulevards’
Finally, Geller flipped to a new page in his presentation and showed his audience a map that, for a moment, seemed to leave them quiet.
This bike theft story will make you feel fantastic about being a Portlander
The mysterious man was calling, he told Sarah Mirk, from the free phone at Good Samaritan Medical Center.
The Monday Roundup: The case against riding in bike lanes & more
Riding in a bike lane is more dangerous than riding in the flow of traffic, a St. Louis biking instructor argues. And more interesting bike links of the week.
28th Avenue business owners give chilly reception to city bikeway proposal
For the most vocal business owners along 28th Avenue’s commercial strip, the mystery of the moment seems to be: why can’t people on bikes just take 30th instead?
Proposal for Portland-to-coast path advances in Salem
A bill to start planning an 86-mile rails-to-trail project that would link Washington County’s Banks-Vernonia corridor to the Pacific Ocean seems to be coasting through the legislature.