SRAM steps up for advocacy; $1 million donated so far
Mega-company SRAM has stepped up big to support the national bike movement with the announcement yesterday of a $400,000 grant to the Thunderhead Alliance and the League of American Bicyclists.
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The unfortunate situation with Mayor Adams
Mayor Sam Adams in October 2007.(Photos © J. Maus) This is a surreal day. While I watched our new President’s moving inaugural speech this morning, it took all of my focus to not keep thinking about the big story I’d heard about the night before involving our leader here in Portland, Mayor Sam Adams. In … Read more
Portland Design Works officially launches; will deliver locally by bike
PDW’s “Panda Treat” grips. Portland Design Works has been busy since we broke word of their arrival back in September. Erik Olson, the former Planet Bike GM who moved from Wisconsin to Portland to launch the company, has now joined forces with former Planet Bike co-worker, Dan Powell. Powell and Olson have finalized their initial … Read more
Catching up with a former Portland pro in Atlanta
Doug Ollerenshaw(Photo © J. Maus) Last time we checked in with ex-Portlander Doug Ollerenshaw he was recovering from a heart-breaking crash at the end of the Twilight Criterium. Also that night, he broke the news that he was retiring from racing and leaving Portland to go to graduate school in Georgia. Ollerenshaw is the consummate … Read more
Weekend Ride Guide and Open Thread
Bikes, Portland, and Palm Trees, a perfect winter mix.(Photos © J. Maus) Welcome to the weekend (I know it’s still Friday but so what)! I hope you’ve got some riding in your plans. Here’s a quick guide to a few velo-options. Some folks are out there right now on this month’s Kidical Mass ride. If … Read more
Eco-friendly cleaning business goes by bike
Off to another “greening”.(Photos © J. Maus) Local cleaning business, Q19 Greening, is looking to buy a fleet of Dutch cargo bikes to make good on their eco-friendly mission. I met up with their first bike-enabled employee the other day to see how things were going. Greg Davis calls himself a Q19 “greener” (instead of … Read more
Meter revenue, project timeline, make PBOT slow to respond to bus mall safety concerns
Parking on the left, tricky tracks on the right.(Photo © J. Maus) This week, the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation decided to remove on-street parking on the new transit mall ahead of schedule due to safety concerns first brought to their attention by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) back in October.
ODOT’s federal funding request focuses on highways and “providing jobs immediately”
ODOT wants $2 million to improve illumination on I-205 bike path.(Photo © J. Maus) The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has released their official list of projects to be included in the federal economic stimulus bill that is expected to come together in mid-February The list includes 46 projects throughout the state and a total … Read more
Product idea: Light up your own bike lane with “LightLane”
[Via Dustbowl] Design duo Alex Tee and Evan Gant from Massachusetts based product design firm Altitude Inc., are making waves around the web for their new “LightLane” concept. Here’s how they describe it: Our system projects a crisply defined virtual bike lane onto pavement, using a laser, providing the driver with a familiar boundary to … Read more
Portland’s bike lane characters; a proud tradition continues (Slideshow)
One of Portland’s customized bike lane markings.-Slideshow below-(Photo: City of Portland) 2009 marks the 10th anniversary of a proud Portland tradition: our creatively modified bike lane pavement markings or what I like to call, “bike lane guys”. The “unlikely cycling hero” who started the tradition in 1999 — according to Portlander Jim Waigand, who has … Read more
A look inside the Mayor’s Transportation Cabinet
Chris Smith, Streetcar Jason Tell, ODOT Scott Bricker, BTA Rex Burkholder, Metro Mark Ginsberg, Lawyer Sue Keil, PBOT Some familiar faces on the Transportation Cabinet.(All photos © J. Maus)
TRB profile: Roads and bike paths on the reservations
[Publisher’s note: This article is a dispatch by Managing Editor Elly Blue, who recently attended the Transportation Research Board conference in Washington D.C. Read more articles from Elly’s East Coast Tour.] John La Verdure (Photo by Elly Blue) Taking a break in the lobby of the Marriott during the TRB conference, I noticed a man … Read more