Jobs of the Week
We had two great opportunities posted to our Job Listings last week. Check them out via the links below… Shipping Specialist – Velotech, Inc. Bicycle Mechanics Instructor – United Bicycle Institute
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The Monday Roundup: Bike seizures, ‘black box camera’ & more
The police chief in Victoria, BC, wants to let officers seize the bicycles of people repeatedly caught without a helmet.
Completing the Coast Route – North Bend to Brookings
Exploring the coastline in Cape Blanco State Park.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) I’m back in Portland now, but I’ve still still got 114 stunning miles of the Oregon Coast Bike Route to share. We didn’t have any connection to the outside world on our last night in Arizona Beach on Thursday night. Then yesterday, after our … Read more
PSU traffic engineer adds new criticism of ODOT’s Barbur analysis
Two days after a Metro engineer publicly called out the Oregon Department of Transportation for allegedly misrepresenting traffic data in a memo that dismissed a bike safety proposal for Southwest Barbur, another expert is adding new skepticism.
Green Zebra Grocery wants to be the bike-friendly Plaid Pantry
Lisa Sedlar is on a mission to do for the Portland mini-mart what Burgerville did for fast food and New Seasons did for grocery stores. And it won’t work, she says, without bikes.
Portland police recover transpo chief’s stolen bike
Beatrice, the battered blue bike stolen from outside the Portland Building last week, is back in the hands of her owner, Portland Bureau of Transportation Director Leah Treat.
Metro traffic engineer says ODOT memo overstated effects of restriping Barbur
A state memo that dismissed a set of bike safety improvements on Southwest Barbur Boulevard was “wrong” in its use of traffic data, a traffic engineer who helped prepare the data said Wednesday.
Portland’s 1971 visionary of low-car life says our city needs its next vision
The man who, 40 years ago, proposed that Portland consider an anti-congestion fee, car-free streets, a citywide bikeway network, a bike sharing system and bike traffic signals just said something else interesting.
Day four on the ‘People’s Coast’ – From sea lions to sand dunes
The view from Neptune Scenic Viewpoint was out-of-this-world.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Your new favorite way to cross SE Powell is open (photos)
Inner southeast Portland’s summer of detours is finishing with an early Christmas present: great big human-friendly new crossings of Powell Boulevard and the nearby railroad tracks at SE 17th.
First look: The new NTS Works ‘2×4’ e-bike brings cargo up a notch
Neal Saiki’s new electric cargo bike is built to operate at the height that most of the world’s work actually gets done: approximately three feet in the air.
In Vancouver, bike lovers celebrate restriping of an overbuilt arterial
After months of advocacy and activism, people who use bikes finally have a model transportation corridor along a portion of a major east/west bicycle route.