4/25: Hello readers and friends. I'm still recovering from a surgery I had on 4/11, so I'm unable to attend events and do typical coverage. See this post for the latest update. I'll work as I can and I'm improving every day! Thanks for all your support 🙏. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
Did we win?!(Photos: Will Vanlue) Photos and story by Will Vanlue The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) celebrated another successful Bike Commute Challenge with a party in Memorial Coliseum last night. For the sixteenth year in a row the BTA’s annual competition encouraged commuters around the Portland metro area to ride their bicycle to work during … Read more
Two great job opportunities posted this week. Check them out via the links below… Store Management — Performance Bike Shop Warehouse Worker — Castelli USA
A big night for bike art.(Photo © J. Maus) Tonight is the monthly First Thursday art event in downtown Portland and there’s no better way to take it all in than with a guided bike ride to three — yes three — fantastic bike art exhibitions. Portland Bicycle Tours is offering a free ride to … Read more
Image from a TriMet presentation of the idea back in February. Remember TriMet’s idea to turn the bikeway on their forthcoming Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Bridge into a sonic piece of public art? While TriMet says their public art advisory committee was “intrigued” by the concept, they weren’t ready to pull the trigger due to its … Read more
Bikes are a common sight at Portland protests.(Photo © J. Maus) Occupy Portland (a.k.a. Occupy Together) the local version of Occupy Wall Street and a national movement to protest the imbalanced influence of corporations in American politics (and a host of other social justice issues) begins today. People will gather at noon near the Saturday … Read more
Approximate location of collision via Google Streetview. The two Canadian women involved in a collision Monday on Highway 101 north of Gold Beach remain hospitalized at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Springfield (near Eugene) today. 30 year old Martha McClean remains in the Intensive Care Unit. That’s all I was able to find out about … Read more
Traffic on Skyline Blvd.(Photo © J. Maus) Residents around Skyline Blvd have scheduled a community forum next month to discuss road safety issues. Hostilities between road users on narrow, winding rural roads like Skyline (and its many offshoots) got a lot of attention back in August when a local email list lit up with allegations … Read more
A winter bike commute workshop at OHSU.(Photos © J. Maus) Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) has earned a ‘Gold Bicycle Friendly Business’ rating from the League of American Bicyclists. OHSU is Portland’s largest employer with 12,400 employees and is the largest organization to ever win a gold or higher designation from the League. The … Read more
Problem solved thanks to action by PBOT.(Photo: Brett McLane) Last week I shared the story of an armored truck that had repeatedly violated Oregon law by parking in the bike lane on the southbound (downhill) side of N Greeley Ave outside the Adidas USA headquarters. Upon receiving an official complaint from North Portland resident Brett … Read more
Newly repaired path looking north.(Photos © J. Maus) A portion of the Willamette River Greenway Trail that closed back in July 2010 has now been re-opened. The managers of the McCormick Pier condos closed a segment of the path about midway between the Broadway and Steel Bridges after noticing surface cracks caused by erosion. The … Read more
A scene from Artcrank 2010.(Photos © J. Maus) Artcrank, the “poster party for bike people,” is coming to Portland for the third consecutive year and the big opening night shindig is this Thursday (10/6)! Artcrank was a huge hit last year and organizers have added an extra day to handle the demand.
Screen grab of the current beta version. On Friday, October 14th you can get a sneak peek at TriMet’s Portland Regional Trip Planner, which they bill as the “first open-source, multi-modal trip planner produced by a U.S. transit agency.” Over three years in the making, TriMet’s new tool will function similarly to how you get … Read more