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Butterfly Beach in Santa Barbara, CA. What’s everyone up to this weekend? I’ve been in California visiting family. We took a few days to venture to my old stomping grounds of Santa Barbara. The photo at right is the bike parking at Butterfly Beach, a gorgeous stretch of sand in front of the famous Biltmore … Read more
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Steel Bridge crowds without 10,000 event riders.(Photo © J. Maus) Cascade Bicycle Club, the group behind the Seattle-to-Portland Bicycle Classic has announced a last minute route change. This Saturday and Sunday, an estimated 10,000 riders (most of them on Sunday) will roll across the lower deck of the Steel Bridge en route to their final … Read more
Riders roll by the junction with theOaks Bottom Trail.(Photo © J. Maus) As I reported back in March, next summer, from June to the end of September, the Springwater Corridor Trail on the Willamette River will be closed for a major project at Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge. As a vital link from Sellwood to downtown … Read more
Captain Todd Wyatt.(Photo © J. Maus) Todd Wyatt is the new captain of the Portland Police Bureau’s Traffic Division. Wyatt, 41, takes over the position from Eric Hendricks who held the position for just 13 months before being reassigned to a job in the Chief’s office. Wyatt comes to Traffic from his previous post as … Read more
The woman behind Sunday Parkways, Linda Ginenthal.(Photo © J. Maus) Everyone’s getting excited about the Sunday Parkways event coming up in East Portland this weekend. Despite a change to the route due to a repaving project on the Springwater Corridor, it will still be an excellent opportunity to enjoy carfree streets and explore neighborhood parks … Read more
Joe Brazil wants bikes banned from country roads due to safety concerns.(Photo: FoxTV/St. Louis)-Watch video below- When a ban on people riding bicycles went into effect in the small casino town of Black Hawk Colorado last month, it seemed like an anomaly. Many people were outraged by it and advocates are still working to overturn … Read more
Revised route map for East Portland Sunday Parkways.(Download full PDF)
Karl Moritz(Photo courtesy Moritz Family) It’s been just over two weeks since a crash on SE Ladd Avenue sent Portland resident Karl Moritz to the hospital with multiple fractures and a serious brain injury. Days later he clung to life in a coma as his family tried to piece together what might have happened and … Read more
Improvements on N. Willamette are one of five projects to be developed.(Photos © J. Maus) Several familiar names will help develop five significant bikeway projects in North and Northeast Portland in the coming months. On Thursday (7/8), the City of Portland issued a letter of intent to award a contract for ‘Bikeway Project Development’ to … Read more
Kurmaskie (second from left) and Camp Creative participants on a recent trip.(Photo: Camp Creative) On Friday, Portland Parks & Recreation announced their selection of non-profit Ethos, Inc. to occupy and manage the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (IFCC) building at 5340 N. Interstate Avenue. As I reported back in April, Ethos founder Charles Lewis has partnered … Read more
A new way to stop thieves.(Photo: Tony Kyriacou/Rex Features) Here’s the news that caught our eye this week: – A 21-year old student from the U.K. is making waves on the web for his foldable bike with a unique theft-deterrent — it can bend around a pole and lock to itself. – JetBlue knows how … Read more