College students get a boost with Biketown financial aid
A few Biketowns hydrating themselves at Peninsula Park on Saturday.
(Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland)
Bike-sharing system
Bike-sharing system
The City of Portland is working on a bike-sharing/rental system. The system will put card-activated rental bikes in kiosks downtown.
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Portland will donate 650 original Biketown bikes to Hamilton (Ontario) Bike Share
New (old) Biketown bikes lined up in South Waterfront in July 2016.
(Photo: J. Maus/BikePortland)
Adaptive Biketown makes cycling with Parkinson’s possible
Carol Clupny, who has Parkinson’s disease, gets fitted by Adaptive Biketown Manager Ryan Ross.
(Photos and video: J. Maus/BikePortland)
Tell PBOT where new Biketown stations should go
Map from survey shows existing Biketown stations.
The City of Portland has released a survey that gives everyone a chance to create a fantasy Biketown system.
As we reported last week, the Portland Bureau of Transportation is eyeing a major expansion of the Biketown service area. Now they want your help to find where holes exist in the current system.
The survey includes a map where you can click a location and request a new station. Because PBOT has typically favored widening the coverage area over adding more bikes and stations to the system, there are still plenty of Biketown deserts in Portland. [Read more…]
Biketown: More adaptive bikes, service area expansion on the way
A bigger Biketown.
(Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland)
Eugene’s new bike share operator partly funded by ODOT, and may be coming to a city near you
PeaceHealth Rides in Eugene.
(Photo: City of Eugene)
Portland will pilot Nike’s recycled rubber bike share stations
New station on the left. Existing station on the right.
(Photos: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland)
New ‘Prescribe-a-Bike’ program teams with health clinics in north/northeast Portland
One of the intended benefits of the program is to “foster social cohesion” among participants.
(Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland)
‘No immediate plans’ for Biketown re-opening as smoke-filled air lingers
“This service outage is a good opportunity for leadership at Lyft to better articulate how their bike share systems plan to operate in emergency situations,”
— Tarani Duncan, bike share industry veteran
A man riding on the Broadway Bridge on September 10th.
(Photos: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland)
Biketown 2.0 is here and the electric bike share era has begun
All ready to go.
(Photos: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland)
