🚨 Please note that BikePortland slows down during this time of year as I have family in town and just need a break! Please don't expect typical volume of news stories and content. I'll be back in regular form after the new year. Thanks. - Jonathan 🙏

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Major development in byCycle’s Trip Planner

[Wyatt and Lauren have reason to smile.] Lauren Donohue and Wyatt Baldwin of byCycle.org just released a very cool feature of their Trip Planner that lets webmasters and bloggers copy/paste a bit of HTML code into any website to give visitors street-by-street, bicycle-friendly directions. It’s just like Mapquest or Google Maps…for bikes! You can give … Read more


Bike ban proposal back to the drawing board

[Karla Keller makes her case, under the watchful eyes of Evan Manvel and Mark Ginsberg.] Karla Keller, ODOT’s Maintenance Manager for Portland, brought along all sorts of stuff for the presentation of her proposal to ban bicycles on metro area highways. She passed out 18 pages of impressive, full-color aerial photos, maps, and internal memos. … Read more