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The 50s Bikeway project is at City Council today!(Map: PBOT) The 50s Bikeway project will be up for a vote at City Council today. While it’s expected to get the required three votes of support, you can also expect some loud opposition to one specific piece of the project — a diverter planned for SE … Read more
Welcome to ‘cross.(Photo © Daniel Sharp) Recently, you may have noticed your neighborhood parks being taken over by lycra clad people running and jumping with their bikes; or maybe you’ve overheard excited murmurs about brand new cowbells or talk of this years “Crusades.” No, this isn’t a religiously sanctioned military campaign for cyclists to take … Read more
By mid-October, a new company called Zen Bicycle Fabrication will be the latest addition to Portland’s always-growing bicycle industry. A few weeks ago, a reader tipped me off to Zen’s website and today I confirmed that it is indeed a real business with a real plan. The person behind this new bike manufacturing start-up (whom … Read more
Using recycled bike frames and parts, Johnnie Olivan of Rejuiced Bikes in North Portland melds artistry and utility into his creations.(Photos © J. Maus unless otherwise noted)
(Photo © J. Maus) New data released by the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey shows that the state of Oregon is a national leader in the number of people who ride a bicycle to work. According to the new “Journey to Work” numbers, 6 percent of people in the city of Portland use a … Read more
The family of Mark Bosworth has just announced a bike ride this Saturday to raise awareness of his disappearance. Bosworth has been missing since Friday, September 16th and a massive effort to find him has been underway ever since. Mark’s wife Julie Bosworth hopes the ride leads to even more visibility of Mark’s disappearance. She … Read more
PBOT and ODOT want to widen I-5 through the Rose Quarter. Think they should? Attend a meeting about it Thursday.(Photo © J. Maus) [Note from Publisher: Welcome to The Advocacy Roundup, a list of transportation planning and policy events in the Portland area this week. It was put together by uber-activist and Active Right of … Read more
A new plan by PBOT would convert the auto parking on this stretch of Holladay into a 10-foot wide shared auto/bike lane.(Photo © J. Maus) The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has released a new plan for how to turn NE Holladay Street into a major, two-way bikeway from the Rose Quarter Transit Center to … Read more
Volunteers gather at theBike Train Meet Up last night.(Photos © J. Maus) Portland’s grassroots movement to get kids and families to hop aboard school “bike trains” continues to grow. Last night 15 schools were represented at the second annual Bike Train Meet Up. That’s quite a jump from the four schools that were a part … Read more
Following an injury collision involving a Multnomah County Judge last month, the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has re-striped the intersection of SW Terwilliger and SW Condor. Here’s how the intersection looked prior to the new treatment: (Photo: PPB) And here’s how it looks now (photo sent in by reader):
The Bosworth family at a news conference yesterday.(Photo: FindMark.org) It’s been a while since I shared any news about Mark Bosworth, the 54-year-old man who went missing from a Cycle Oregon campsite in Riddle on September 16th. While there are no solid leads or major developments to share at this time; there are several updates … Read more
“This project is very risky. We shouldn’t gamble by skipping the steps provided by Oregon’s land use process.”— Mara Gross, Coalition for a Livable Future This morning the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods (NECN) and the Coalition for a Livable Future (CLF) announced an appeal of Metro’s decision last month to pass the project’s Land Use … Read more