🎄🚨: BikeCraft is back! Our holiday gift bazaar happens Wednesday, 12/17 at Migration Brewing on N Williams Ave.
See full vendor list here.
My wife Juli is currently looking to outfit herself with a family bike and the options are staggering. She’s been obsessed with looking at all the different bikes, child seats, trailers, trail-a-bikes, and other equipment. When you’ve got to run around town with two growing kids (one almost 2, the other 4 1/2) and whatever … Read more
Erik Tonkin racing at Hillsboro Stadium in October 2006. (File photo)
The other day an email came in from a reader at a local company who was working with his admin department to develop benefits for bike commuters. He figured since his company gave perks for using TriMet or carpooling, bicyclists shouldn’t be left out. I forwarded his message to Michellle Poyourow at the BTA and … Read more
This Google Earth screenshot shows the newly updated Metro Bike There! map overlayed with a 3-D satellite view of Portland.
Bike-friendly streets were chosen as one of the top five reasons to move to Portlandby Willamette Week readers.(File photo) In case you hadn’t noticed, local weekly newspaper The Willamette Week put out their Best of Portland issue today. Inside are the results of their staff picks in a variety of categories and results from a … Read more
This photo shows major lane re-alignment at Williams and Fremont.(File photo) The Portland Development Commission (PDC) and the Portland Department of Transportation (PDOT) are throwing a public party in north Portland tomorrow night to celebrate the completion of the first phase of their Vancouver-Williams Transportation Safety Project.
I’ve been meaning to post an update about how bicycles are fairing in the the Columbia River Crossing Project. A cyclist on the I-5 Bridge.(File photo) A 25 member Bike/Ped Advisory Committee has been meeting regularly for the past few months. You can learn more about who’s on the committee and read their meeting notes … Read more
As part of their monthly Debate Club series, the Bus Project and the Portland Mercury will host a bikes versus cars debate next Tuesday. The debate will include interim BTA director Scott Bricker, me, Sreya Sarkar of the Cascade Policy Institute’s Wheels to Wealth Program and Mel Zucker of the Oregon Transportation Institute. The debate … Read more
Former Mayors Bud Clark and Vera Katz.(File photo) The meaning of last Friday’s Tour of Tomorrow bike ride can be summed up by one simple fact: a majority of the Metro Council (4 of 7 members) rode the entire 40 mile, bi-state route. The ride — which was created by Oregonian columnist and Cycle Oregon … Read more
It’s been over a year since I reported on the status of an idea to re-purpose the Sauvie Island Bridge as a super-sized bicycle and pedestrian crossing over the 405 freeway at Flanders Boulevard looking East.
[Updated: 7/24, 7:34am] A bike-sharing system in Vienna.Photo: Ethan Jewett By now, everyone’s heard of the “Velib” bike-sharing program launched by Paris earlier this month. That program — whose name so poetically is formed from the French words for “bike” and “liberty” — placed 10,600 bikes at 750 stations for use by Parisians and tourists … Read more
Seems like a week can’t go by without Portland making it onto another list. If you’re keeping track, here’s two more I came across today, and they both specifically mention bike-friendliness as a reason for our inclusion. The first one I found about via Jack Bog’s Blog. He points out that the AARP has named … Read more