City wants $1.5 million for N. Williams Ave.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation has applied for over $36 million in state transportation grants. The grants are administered by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) through their 2015-2018 State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). PBOT’s list (PDF) includes 16 projects, many of … Read more
A budget proposal by PBOT would end reduce the City’s support of Sunday Parkways.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) As PBOT grapples with a $4.4 million budget gap for the upcoming fiscal year, yesterday they proposed $1.5 in cuts that would directly impact biking and walking projects and programs. Members of the PBOT Budget Advisory Committee heard … Read more
This bike rack at the Plaid Pantry on SE Grand and Burnside is one of 12 that have been recently installed. I’ve got some great news for Portlanders who frequent Plaid Pantry convenience stores by bike. For years, I’ve heard grumblings from readers (and have experienced it myself) about the hassle of having no bike … Read more
Businesses along SW Stark.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) One of the Great Myths that somehow continues to follow urban bicycling around is that when you redesign a street to improve bike access, it will automatically be bad for adjacent businesses. This is of course completely absurd. But even with studies and common sense easily disproving such … Read more
This weekend! The eighth annual BikeCraft is this weekend! If you’re not already planning to be there, what I’m about to share should seal the deal. In a nutshell, it’s an event you do not want to miss. Here are just a few reasons… — North St. Bags will be in the house doing on-site … Read more
Jessica Horning.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) In case you missed it, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) recently hired a Transit and Active Transportation Liaison for the Portland metro area (what ODOT refers to as Region 1). The new hire is 31-year-old Humboldt neighborhood resident Jessica Horning. Since we’ll surely be seeing and hearing a lot … Read more
Google street view of Sylvan overpass.
“I saw a guy putting one into the back of his truck, which looked odd — who just throws a nice bike into the back of a pickup?” I usually think of summer as high season for bike theft; but maybe thieves are so desperate for extra cash this time of year they are looking … Read more
No joke. Is it possible to have fun on a mountain bike in Forest Park? Ask five different people and you’re likely to get five different answers. In the end, I think it depends on what you consider fun. On Sunday, I ventured out to discover some new (to me) roads and found that the … Read more
Let’s talk about bikes! If that headline made any sense to you at all, you should join us next week for Wonk Night. On Wednesday, December 5th, BikePortland (that’s me) and Lancaster Engineering (the nice, smart folks I sublease my office from) are hosting an event where we’ll discuss lots of fun and interesting topics. … Read more
“Cars — in whatever their future form may be — are here to stay. But so are bikes, transit and walking.”— Op-ed in The Oregonian A strange thing happened after Metro released a major new household travel survey last month. Despite the survey showing big increases in the rate of bicycle and transit use for … Read more
Welcome to Monday. Hope you enjoyed the holiday. Let’s get right back to it shall we? — The big news (just hit this morning) is that Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford — a bike hater who will live in infamy for ripping out a bike lane — was removed from office for improprieties surrounding a … Read more