TriMet has announced that the Eastbank Esplanade bicycling and walking path just south of OMSI to SE Caruthers Street will be closed for 14 months. The closure is due to construction of the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail bridge. Here’s more from TriMet: Two contractors, Kiewit and Stacy Witbeck, will be working in the closure area to … Read more
Trip number 1,000,828 at 5:26 pm yesterday.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Yesterday at about 4:00 pm the bicycle counter on the Hawthorne Bridge logged its 1,000,000th trip. The counter went live on August 8th and reached 500,000 trips just three months later. Yesterday was a fitting day to break the 1 million mark as the daily … Read more
Krisapon Chaisawat(Facebook profile) Note from the publisher, 6:14 pm: This story was originally posted described a situation wherein attendees at a ride on Sunday believed they were accompanied by a Portland Police officer named Chris Uehara. After seeing photos of the officer and learning other similarities, I posted a story describing the situation and included … Read more
MacArthur Blvd south of Mill Plain Blvd with MacMcLoughlin Middle School in the background.
This racer relied on his spidey-sense.(Photos: Judd Eustice) Portland’s racing season has gotten off to a great start. Yesterday, 160 riders put off their Easter festivities to test their fitness at the first event in the Crank Time Trial series at Portland International Raceway. The field doubled in size since its inception two years ago, … Read more
Movie-makers in LA are whining over green lanes.(LA Times screenshot) Welcome to Monday. If you missed some of the great bike stories last week, fear not: The links below will bring you right up to date… — One of pro bike racing’s biggest stars has pinched into some controversy after grabbing the rear-end of a … Read more
On a bike trail between Rhododendron and Lolo Pass Rd.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Last weekend I had the good fortune to spend a few nights in a friends’ cabin in Rhododendron, a sweet little community about 20 miles toward Mt. Hood from the town of Sandy. I brought my mountain bike along with hopes of … Read more
Highway 26 through Rhododendron.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) knows that if Mt. Hood is to remain a popular recreation destination there’s got to be a better way to get up there than driving in a car. Highways that connect to Mt. Hood are becoming magnets for congestion and crashes, so … Read more
A story worth telling. (Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) wants some help to tell the story of their Sunday Parkways program. PBOT has posted a request for proposals (RFP) for a Sunday Parkways video. The City hasn’t made any statements about the project, but according to the RFP, … Read more
The local bike job market is blooming like cherry trees in Waterfront Park. Check out the six excellent opportunities that were posted on our Job Listings this past week… Installation Tech – Rack Attack Master Mechanic and Sales/service – Peterson Bicycle Shop (WA) Backup SoupCycler – SoupCycle Entry Level Bicycle Frame Production Assistant – Zen … Read more
“We need streets for people, not more roads for cars. Portland needs to retake the lead as a America’s most sustainable city.”— from the group’s Facebook page The latest sign that bicycle activism in Portland continues to take new forms is a new group called Veloprovo, which is planning its inaugural ride this Sunday. Here’s … Read more
Google Streetview of Islabikes new Portland location at SE 7th and Lincoln. Islabikes, a well-known brand from the U.K., is the latest bicycle company to chose Portland for their North American headquarters. The company plans to begin selling their full range of children’s bicycles from a 5,200 square-foot building on the corner of SE 7th … Read more