🚨 Please note: For the latest on the future of BikePortland, please read this update from founder and publisher Jonathan Maus.
PBOT’s SmartTrips program is among the cuts.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) The City of Portland’s Transportation Options Division — the group behind such popular programs as Sunday Parkways and SmartTrips — no longer exists as a stand-alone section of PBOT. The consolidation of Options into a new “Active Transportation” group within PBOT’s org chart — and … Read more
This week we had two great opportunities at local bike shops posted to our Job Listings. Check out all the details in the links below… Seasonal Bicycle Mechanic — Citybikes Worker-owned Coop Bike Mechanic — Bike Gallery – Lake Oswego
No more left turns from SW Condor onto Terwilliger and no more left turns off of Terwilliger onto Condor.(Photos: Armando Luna)
Screengrab of Mercury article. PBOT’s North Williams Traffic Operations Safety Project is heating up again — both the public process and the public spotlight. The project found its way onto the cover of this week’s edition of The Portland Mercury. Reporter Sarah Mirk took a historical look at the Albina neighborhood and, given its history … Read more
These guys could only be headed to one thing… Mini Bike Winter!(Photo © J. Maus) Zoobomb’s big annual event, Mini Bike Winter, starts tonight. Now in its ninth year, the four-day event promises a mix of performances, parties, and pure fun that is sure to help ease your winter doldrums. This year, in addition to … Read more
From Ford website. I was happy this morning to find a statement from U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaHood’s office that his war on distracted driving now includes new regulations for automakers. The proposals come as President Obama’s just-released transportation budget includes $330 million to combat the problem. For the past few years, I’ve been disturbed … Read more
Detail of trail map. Since it opened in 2009, the Sandy Ridge Trail System — located about 40 miles east of downtown Portland (map) at the foot of Mt. Hood — has grown by leaps and bounds (or should I say by drops and berms) in both popularity and in sheer miles of fun trails … Read more
The view of the future Sullivan’s Gulch multi-use path looking east from NE Grand Ave. See how it will look once the facility is built in the images below.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Time to get in front of this TriMet mess.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) TriMet — and therefore transit as we know it in Portland — in trouble. The agency is under pressure to cut its budget, and so far, its seems to be leaning primarily toward service cutbacks and fare increases as the primary way to … Read more
Buses on Williams Ave. are a constant concern for people on bikes.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) In the coming weeks, the Stakeholder Advisory Committee for the North Williams Traffic Operations Safety Project will hammer out a formal recommendation to PBOT on how to improve bike access on the street. One of the considerations they’ll take into … Read more
Glendoveer Woods will have a self-service bike repair shop consisting of work benches and tools for the project’s residents and community biking organizations to utilize.— From City of Portland memo about the development We’ve covered new housing developments (like the “Milano” coming to the Lloyd District) that actively seek bike-oriented tenants in the central city; … Read more
It will be moved.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) [Publisher’s note: As an update to a story we covered several times last month, I’ve accepted a guest article from Chris Smith explaining his successful effort to have a streetcar pole on the Broadway Bridge moved out of the way of bike traffic. Smith is a well known … Read more