🚨 Please note: For the latest on the future of BikePortland, please read this update from founder and publisher Jonathan Maus.
Most of N. Williams Ave will be converted into this cross-section.(Graphics: Fat Pencil Studios) Finally. This Saturday (5/19), PBOT will host the final open house for their North Williams Ave Traffic Operations Safety Project. As we shared back in March, after 13 months of public process, a citizen committee finally made a decision last month … Read more
Participants in the program pose in front of Human Services Council in Vancouver.(Photos: Human Services Council)) [This story was written by Madeleine von Laue.] A Vancouver woman has a new job and a new bicycle to get there, thanks in part to a new program that helps job seekers and low-income adults in SW Washington … Read more
Kathryn Rickson on May 3rd.(Photo: Facebook profile) Tomorrow night the community will gather at the corner of SW 3rd and Madison in downtown Portland to remember Kathyrn Rickson. Kathryn is the 28-year-old Southeast Portland resident who died late last night from injuries sustained in a collision with a truck while bicycling through that intersection. Every … Read more
Emergency crews at work.(Photo: JoniPhoto.com) The Portland Police Bureau have just released information about a very serious collision that happened downtown less than one hour ago. It occurred at the intersection of SW 3rd and Madison at around 8:30 pm tonight. Police say it appears that the woman — now identified as 28-year-old Kathryn Leah … Read more
Lindsay Walker of the Lloyd TMA looks over the project maps with PBOT Traffic Engineer Rob Burchfield and City Bike Coordinator Roger Geller.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Last night the City of Portland and representatives from the Lloyd Transportation Management Association hosted an open house for their NE Multnomah Street Transportation Pilot Project. It was the … Read more
How did we get here? New slides from PBOT tell an even more detailed and interesting story of how Portland’s bike network has evolved. See the full animation below.
ODOT Director Matt Garrett, photographed in Salem.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Rolling toward a new bill (finally!).(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) It’s been a very long and winding road for the federal transportation bill. And while it looks like the end is finally in sight, there is still some nail-biting ahead. The law that dictates how the federal government funds transportation expired over 900 days ago and … Read more
Portland resident Chris Chapman has launched a new cycling apparel brand called, “It’s in my Heart“. The business is just getting off the ground; but Chapman, a former brand manager at Castelli/Sportful, says he’s already got orders flowing in from all of Portland’s major bike shops as well as the Made in Oregon store and … Read more
Please note: I’ve posted an updated version of this animation that is much more detailed. Portland’s paltry network of bike-specific infrastructure, circa 1980. See how it has evolved below. Portland’s bike network was not built overnight. Most of our bike-specific infrastructure was built in the mid to late 1990s, but it really started in the … Read more
To all of our readers in Portland and Oregon (which is just over half of our audience by the way), your ballots are due by 8:00 pm tonight. There really is no good reason to sit this one out, so if you haven’t mailed in your ballot yet, check out BallotDrop.org for a location near … Read more
The director of the Oregon Department of Transportation, Matt Garrett, in his office in Salem.(Photos © J. Maus)