Weekend Event Guide: Tweed, gravel, cherry blossoms and more
Dress up for Tweed, head to the Gorge for an epic ride, or grab the family for some local community goodness — all that and more are on this week’s menu!
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Poll shows Portlanders split about 50/50 on $8 household ‘street fee’
About half of Portland’s English-speaking voters are in favor of an $8-a-month household fee to pay for street repairs and improvements, a city poll testing public attitudes found.
Latest Travel Oregon vid shows power of bike tourism for rural communities
Watch this new Travel Oregon video on bicycle tourism success stories and try not to be inspired by the beauty and bikenomics of riding bikes in our great state.
At 20s Bikeway open houses, narrow support for bike lanes instead of auto parking
Of 90 comments on the subject, 48 supported at least one buffered bike lane in the 28th Avenue commercial district.
Book Review: Cycling Sojourner: A Guide to the Best Multi-Day Rides in Washington
Portland author Ellee Thalheimer’s new guide book will have you crossing the border into Washington for a summer of great rides.
Big Bike News Roundup: Shop move, cargo bike doc, Timbers, foodie ride and more
Have you seen this new art rack downtown?(Photo: Christina Lacy) We’ve reached that point again where I have so many interesting and cool bits of news on my story list that I’ve decided a Big Bike News Roundup is the best way to share them all. In the past I might have just posted each … Read more
PBOT will host open house tonight for ‘NE Rodney Bikeway Project’
By the end of this summer, NE Rodney will see some bike-centric changes. Find out what they’ll look like — and share your thoughts — at the PBOT open house tonight.
City’s ‘SmartTrips’ marketing program shifts focus
SmartTrips program manager Linda Ginenthal in 2006,surrounded by “doodads, goodies, prizes, swag.”(Photos by J.Maus/BikePortland) After 12 years of bike maps, blinking lights and walking tours, one of Portland’s most innovative transportation programs is shifting direction. Starting next week, the city’s residential SmartTrips program, which gives Portlanders customized packages of free resources to help them get … Read more
Can new-fangled mortgages finance Portland’s tiny-home boom?
Portland’s enthusiasm for building small and tiny homes has been so abrupt, so unusual and so locally unique that the home mortgage industry hasn’t figured out how to take advantage of it.
Today is our 9th birthday!
Can you believe it’s been nine years already?!
Business, fun and diversity on the agenda at Oregon Active Transportation Summit
The two-day Oregon Active Transportation Summit, which starts one week from Monday, is filling out its schedule and the good stuff is starting to spill over.
The BikePortland Podcast: The state of bike advocacy
Who speaks for those who ride? Do they speak for all of us who ride? What about all of us who want to?