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The New Columbia skills park directly servesthe development’s 2500 residents.(Photo: Community Cycling Center) The residents of North Portland’s public, mixed-income housing development New Columbia now have one of the city’s handful of bike skills parks in their backyard. Enhanced with paths, wood ramps, a berm and a bicycle teeter-totter, the park at the corner of … Read more
Mayor Hales has had traffic safety on his mind for months — now he’s starting to do something about it.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) In light of a spate of serious injury and fatal roadway collisions, Mayor Charlie Hales held a top-level meeting in his City Hall office yesterday. Billed as, “An urgent/time sensitive meeting request … Read more
Zed Bailey doesn’t know if anyone will show up to Velo Cult tonight to talk about the future of bike fun in Portland. He doesn’t know because he didn’t put the event on Facebook.
Get an inside look at Islabikes at their open house today.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) There are two events today you won’t want to miss (actually three, but we’ll share the third one in a separate post later today). Islabikes, the UK-based purveyor of fine children’s bicycles is hosting an Open House event at their new … Read more
As many people seemed to notice, last week was particularly thick with serious bike-related collisions. We’re continuing to track relevant parts of several, so here’s the latest.
Bike Milwaukie, a community group in Portland’s inner southern suburb, has been holding 12 to 13 rides a year since it formed in 2011 and is gearing up for a minor milestone: they’ll be joined this Sunday by Milwaukie Mayor Jeremy Ferguson.
Brian Willson, a widely known veteran of the Vietnam War and the movement to end it, is on the mend after a crash at the corner of Southeast 51st Avenue and Clinton, not far from his home.
After six years of promising to fix one of the most persistent chinks in downtown’s bike lane grid, city planners have a new plan to link the bike lanes north and south of the Steel Bridge on the Naito Parkway.
Two recent stories — one local and one national — illustrate that bicycles and the people who ride them can be powerful forces for good. The first story is from The Oregonian. Last week, reporter Simina Mistreanu shared a heart-wrenching story about how northeast Portland resident Bonnie Holtgrew prevented a man from committing suicide: … … Read more
A year-old service that lets you rent bikes from ordinary people has new ownership, a new iPhone app and quite a few bikes for rent in Portland.
TriMet says its drivers are temporarily emphasizing a longstanding rule that bikes loaded on its bus racks ares supposed to be stripped of bulky accessories before boarding.
The UK is considering recommending that people on bikes prevent pollution exposure by wearing “cycle masks” over their mouths. Or maybe, some point out, people on bikes could be physically separated from tailpipes.