12th Annual Filmed by Bike weighs its first feature-length contender
Founding curator Ayleen Crotty said Friday that the festival may cross a new threshold this year: an epic. At least by festival standards.
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27 questions about local biking this year (and only one is fake)
Predictions are for suckers. The trick to understanding the future is knowing which questions to ask.
Bike lanes may help spur big changes at Lloyd Center Mall
The two-story parking garage that for 50 years has walled off Portland’s biggest mall could be in for changes, people familiar with the plans say.
From The Oregonian, Jan. 1, 1895: ‘Reign of the wheel’
119 years later, this short case for the merits of biking still feels like the perfect way to kick off a year of progress.
The 4 biggest Portland bike stories nobody wrote in 2013
Let’s look at four that might have gotten lost in the cracks, but shouldn’t have.
The Portland bike news that flew furthest in 2013
Like building a better city, making a good news website these days is a lesson in the fact that it’s the quality of the traffic, not just the quantity, that matters.
BikePortland’s December podcast: The 2013 question show
Jonathan, Lily and I sat down this month for a new holiday-season tradition at BikePortland: answering as many listener questions as we possibly could in 25 minutes.
Biking the Big Easy: Infrastructure and advocates on the rise
Biking to the end of the rainbow on the Mississippi River Trail.(Photos by Erin Greeson) Welcome to the second installment of a three-part series on bicycling and transportation culture in New Orleans by former Portlander and BikePortland contributor Erin Greeson. Erin currently lives in New Orleans. Read her introduction to this series here. Part II: … Read more
The Monday Roundup: Bike skyways, pollution exertion & more
A British starchitect wants to build a 135-mile network of elevated bikeways above London’s commuter rail lines.
9% of Portland road fatalities in 2013 happened at a single intersection
I promise we’re going to be able to focus on cheerier subjects soon, but some facts are too shocking to pass over.
The Friday Profile: Shelley Oylear, Washington County’s eye on biking
Shelley Oylear, the only public employee in Washington County with the word bicycle in her job title, is the 36-year-old queen of having feet in two worlds.
Mayor Hales floats city takeover of Powell, Barbur, 82nd, Lombard
Mayor Charlie Hales seems to be advancing an idea that’s been on advocates’ wish list for years: putting the City of Portland, not state government, in charge of the city’s biggest streets.