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The Columbian newspaper is reporting that Clark County Commissioners want staff to look into a plan to create a bicycle licensing fee. L to R: Clark County Commissioners Steve Stuart, Tom Mielke, and Marc Boldt.
Map detail of Northeast Sunday Parkways event planned for this Sunday.
Don Kruger, owner of Kruger’s Farm Stand on Sauvie Island.(Photos © J. Maus) Farmer Don Kruger, owner of Kruger’s Farm Market on Sauvie Island, says he’s “hanging tough” after the recent Multnomah County decision on his farm stand permit. During a standard permit update process that was triggered by a complaint from one of Kruger’s … Read more
Downtown Tigard. Red lines show streets impacted by amendments to planning code.View Map On June 23th, Tigard City Council voted unanimously in favor of planning code amendments that remove the city’s requirement to have bike lanes on specific downtown streets. Along with that decision, they also voted on a code amendment that allows them to … Read more
“The more lanes I have, the more people I have… Once you put a bike lane in, it’s going to cut down a lane of traffic. That is my concern.”— Krishna Bhaptarai, owner of Katmandu Foods and signer of a petition against the bike lane plan Our story about a plan to re-stripe Commercial Avenue … Read more
Gabriel Tiller wasn’t smilingafter a security breach at Nashbar.com resulted in fraud.(Photo © J. Maus) Northeast Portland resident Gabriel Tiller is sort of a bicycle renaissance man. He has won a national tall-bike jousting competition, taken top prize at the Zoobomb Century, earned a spot on the gravity-biking podium at the Maryhill Festival of Speed, … Read more
[This Q & A with Massachusetts-based builder Chris Igleheart was written by Portlander Otis Rubottom as part of our ongoing coverage of the upcoming Oregon Manifest event. Igleheart will be in Portland this October to compete in the Constructor’s Design Challenge. We’ll publish more builder Q & As in the weeks to come.] Chris Igleheart … Read more
This is what the sign looks like today. The effort by University of Oregon to re-design downtown Portland’s iconic “Made in Oregon” sign is once again in the news. Now that they own the building it is attached to, UO wants to make some changes to the sign. The issue created a bit of a … Read more
Screenshot of KGW video. It was big news last week when the American Automobile Association (Triple A) announced they would begin offering roadside assistance to people on bicycles*. Triple A is not the first company to offer such a service, but given their past of lobbying for automobiles (often at the expense of biking) the … Read more
Over 50 readers showed up for ourGet Together in Multnomah Village.Can we top that in inner SE?(Photo © J. Maus) We’ve been holding our BikePortland Get Togethers since February now, as a chance to get to know the issues in far-flung parts of the city and connect our readers offline. Every month we get requests … Read more
About 50 people attended the North Portland Climate Action Plan Town Hall.(Photos © J. Maus) Last week I attended the Climate Action Plan Town Hall in North Portland. The event was a chance for Mayor Sam Adams to explain the City’s stance on climate change and to address feedback on the draft version of their … Read more
This “bicycle mandala” graphic is one of the treatments PBOT is proposing to install in an intersection along SE Clinton Street to make it clear to people in cars that they are on a bicycle boulevard.