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Sam Adams has just posted a survey that allows you to weigh in on how you think the city’s transportation money should be spent. This is an exciting opportunity to cast your vote and let the folks at City Hall know how strongly you feel about the key role of bicycle access in the future … Read more
by Jessica Roberts, Metro Area Advocate for the BTA I attended last night’s budget forum, hosted by Commissioner Sam Adams. I’m pleased to say that bicycling was well represented. Over 30% of participants arrived by bike, and it was clear through the course of the evening that this was a crowd that loves riding a … Read more
Chris Smith is full of great ideas lately. Earlier this month, he started working with the folks at KBOO radio to offer past and future episodes of the popular KBOO Bike Show as MP3s for our listening enjoyment. Now he’s gone and put together an aggregate site called “The Portland Bike Channel“.
There’s another new bike lane stencil that just hit Portland streets. This one was made to commemorate the University of Portland women’s soccer team on their NCAA championship victory. It lives on N. Willamette Blvd. I ride by there all the time so I look forward to introducing myself. [Thanks to Roger Geller for sending … Read more
Some of you may remember that Joe Biel (founder of Microcosm Publishing) is working on a documentary about bike art. He was particularly interested in Portland’s whimsical bike lane characters. I just heard from Joe that after a few meetings and phone calls he was given the opportunity to design and lay out his very … Read more
A few months ago I was smitten with PDX airport because of their new and vastly improved bike access. After reading my post, several folks were inspired to ride to the airport to take advantage of the new bike lane and enclosed long-term bike parking facility. However now all that has changed. A few riders … Read more
The Pedalpalooza craziness has already begun…and it’s only December. Check out the new interactive feature over on the Shift website. You can make the bike fun action figures say anything you want.
Chris Smith has posted PDFs and summaries of the presentations from the PSU Traffic and Transportation class. Several of them are bike-related and they provide great insight and ideas about how to improve biking conditions in Portland.
The Southeast Precinct of the Portland Police Bureau have started a bike theft awareness campaign. Officers have been standing on the Hawthorne Bridge in the early morning and passing out forms for cyclists to fill out and return to them. According to one cyclist, who was stopped last Tuesday at 6:30 AM, the form asks … Read more
Back in April the PBS show “GlobeTrekker” came to Portland. They highlighted Portland’s eco-friendly transportation options and somehow ended up on a Zoobomb. Dat Nguyen has found and posted the clip for all of us to enjoy (you’ll need QuickTime to view it).
Just got word that Shannon Skerritt – Bike Gallery employee and Vanilla Bicycles sponsored cyclocross racer – has rode to victory in the 30-35 Masters race at Cyclocross Nationals! OBRA’s Candi Murray says Shannon is the first-ever Oregonian to win a cyclocross national championship. (see this comment) According to reports, conditions were treacherous. Rain, sleet, … Read more
Click away… [*updated] Elly Blue reports on last night’s Super Legal Ride Filmed by Bike III calls for submissions “Urban Adventurer” Shawn Granton rides the city The O covers the ODOT paint incident (I guess imitation is the best form of flattery) The O covers a car-free family (and it happens to be Sacha’s ladies) … Read more