Note: I'm currently on a family trip and not working normal hours. Email and message responses will be delayed and story and posting volumes here and on our social media accounts will not be at their usual levels until I return to Portland September 4th. Thanks for your patience and understanding. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
[Mini-Bike Winter competitors.]Photo: Dat To say there was something for everyone this past weekend would be a vast understatement. Kicking off on Friday night was of course Mini-Bike Winter (MBW). With the help of MBW special correspondent Mykle Hansen, I brought you updates from opening night and Saturday’s Chariot action. Yesterday, the MBW festivities reached … Read more
[Photos by Jonathan Maus, reporting by Mykle Hansen]
[Skate Bomb!] [This coverage of Mini-Bike Winter IV comes from our special correspondent Mykle Hansen] Let the games begin! Mini-Bike Winter got off to an explosive start last night when a parade of nearly 150 brightly lit bikers — including several dozen visitors from Canada, Seattle and California, and quite a few first-time bombers — … Read more
[Potential trail would go near University of Portland.]Photo: Scott Mizee/npGreenway Last night in North Portland the community got an update on npGreenway’s vision for a new riverfront trail that will someday link the St. John’s Bridge to the Eastbank Esplanade. A group of of about 25 citizens, trail advocates, and neighborhood leaders came together to … Read more
The following jobs were posted in the last week. Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium at Portland State University: Fiscal Operations Coordinator The BTA: Pedestrian Safety Education The BTA: Bicycle Safety Education
[Without a new law, this is what some people must resort to.]
[Mini-Bike Winter specialcorrespondent Mykle Hansen.] …and all through the town, mini-bikes are rolling, and no one has a frown. Excuse my bad poetry, but it’s the eve of Mini-Bike Winter and I’d like to introduce esteemed Zoobomber and BikePortland’s special correspondent, Mykle Hansen. Mykle will give us an insider’s look at this year’s event, which … Read more
[Stop sign with in NE Portland.]Photo: zervas/Flickr This is the second of two posts offering different perspectives on whether or not we should work to change existing stop sign laws. In the first post in this series the author claimed that allowing bicycles to treat some stop signs as yields is a much safer and … Read more
[Stop sign on N. Williams Ave.]Photo: haljon/Flickr A recent interview I published about an effort to change the laws around how bicycles treat stop signs touched of an engaging and lengthy debate (92 comments so far). In reaction, this is the first of two posts I will publish to present different perspectives on the proposed … Read more
[A bike-sharing system, like this one in Vienna, could be on its way to Portland.] Photo: Ethan Jewett City Commissioner Sam Adams has stepped up his effort to bring a bicycle-sharing system to Portland. Although still in “preliminary stages,” Adams’ staffer Max Coffman — who works with Adams and Senior Policy Director Roland Chlapowski on … Read more
Back in June, I wrote about a new traffic citation diversion class that would be offered to bicyclists. Then in October, the man behind the class — Multnomah County Judge Pro Tem Christopher Larsen — shared more details about the class with the Portland Bicycle Advisory Committee.
[At National Night Out in the Piedmont neighborhood, 8/2/05] OK everyone, here’s your chance to let the City of Portland know that volunteer, neighborhood bike patrols would be a new program worthy of their support. First, some background. I recently met with stakeholders from the Mayor’s Office, the Office of Neighborhood Involvement, the county District … Read more
Comment of the Week: Gratitude for N/NE Broadway project