🚨 Please note: For the latest on the future of BikePortland, please read this update from founder and publisher Jonathan Maus.
[Bike share is coming to Portland! Scroll down for updates] City Council will vote today on a funding request that includes the Portland Bike Share project.(Photo © J. Maus) A request by the Portland Bureau of Transportation to fund a bike share project with $2 million from the federal government is up for a vote … Read more
Employees of the Oregon State Highway Division appear in a 1972 article about bicycling’s rise in popularity. See below for images from Oregon newspapers from as far back as 1899.
Commissioner Amanda Fritz(Photo © J. Maus) Portland City Commissioner Amanda Fritz plans to vote against a PBOT request for federal funds that includes a bike share system when it comes in front of Council tomorrow. Since her winning campaign back in 2008, Fritz has championed “basic services for all 95 neighborhoods” as the pillar of … Read more
Jacob Rathe(Photo: Pat Malach/Oregon Cycling Action) Remember Jacob Rathe? He’s the local bike racer we caught up with three years ago (when he was just 17) prior to racing in the Junior World Championships in South Africa for Team USA. Rathe, now 20, has moved far beyond the Junior ranks. One day after taking a … Read more
Not even 24 hours has passed and the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s (PBOT) decision to include bike share in a federal funding request is already facing opposition — and some of it is coming from unlikely places. But, while this bike share funding decision is poised to become just the latest bike-related political/media punching bag, … Read more
A bike share system is now officially in the running for federal funds.(Photos © J. Maus) This Wednesday at City Council, the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) will make their pitch for four projects they want to fund with $9 million in federal Regional Flexible Funds. As per instructions from Metro (the agency that doles … Read more
View of SE Division where a fatal collision occurred last week. Note SE 87th in the upper left hand corner.
Casey Martell of Rose Pedals Pedicabs gives a few kids a free ride during the Alberta Street Fair on Saturday.(Photos © J. Maus)
[Publisher’s note: Thanks to the non-profit Community Vision and their annual Harvest Century (October 8th) for support of the Monday Roundup! – JM.] Here’s the bike news from around the world that caught my eye this week: – The ban on bicycling in the casino town of Black Hawk, Colorado is now headed to that … Read more
(Photo © J. Maus) The 2011 Bridge Pedal has started! If you are one of the 20,000 people hitting the course today, chime in below and share your impressions of the event. Did you do the full, 10-bridge ride? How did you like the new route? Did you see any crazy stuff out there?
Racers round a corner as throngs of spectators cheer them on during the Twilight Criterium around the North Park Blocks last night. (Photos © J. Maus)
Still from new BTA vid.– Watch it below – The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) held their annual member meeting earlier this week. Unfortunately I wasn’t there, but from what I’ve heard it was a very solid event. In addition to their new 20-year vision and Strategic Plan, the BTA shared a new promotional video at … Read more