Detail of Giant Bicycles response to GM ad.-See it below- It’s been two days since we first shared the “Stop pedaling… Start driving.” General Motors ad and the story — and the ad itself — is still getting a lot of attention. GM themselves has responded by saying they’ll pull the ad out of rotation, … Read more
Nice to see in a magazine where cool is usually defined by racing bikes. The October issue of Bicycling Magazine includes a big feature article on the cargo bike revolution that’s sweeping the country. Portland, with our flourishing cargo bike scene, figures prominently into the article. There’s copy and photos devoted to a local bike … Read more
OPB.org screenshot The popular Oregon Public Broadcasting radio show, Think Out Loud, will tackle PBOT’s North Williams Traffic Safety Project tomorrow. Here’s how OPB sets up tomorrow’s one-hour discussion: “North Williams Avenue in Portland has become a controversial street in the last few months. Currently, on the one way street, there are two lanes for … Read more
Last night, The Oregonian’s commuting reporter and columnist Joseph Rose published an article about Portland Mayor Sam Adams’ budget decisions. The article, Portland Mayor Sam Adams boosts funding for bike projects, but now there’s less for paving streets, attempts to make the point that Adams’ decision to allocate a larger percentage of discretionary revenue to … Read more
Go with the “Mo”.(Photo © J. Maus) Just because it’s a handmade bike show, doesn’t mean there isn’t other news to cover here in Austin. On that note, last night I ran into Mia Kohout, co-publisher of Momentum Magazine. The successful bike lifestyle publication based in Vancouver, B.C. celebrates its 50th issue with their March … Read more
Graphic from WWeek.com. One of our local alternative weekly magazines, The Willamette Week, made an interesting choice for their weekly “Rogue of the Week” feature. They’ve given the label to the “haters” of the 50s Bikeway who showed up to last week’s first public open house on the project. Here’s a snip from the Willamette … Read more
-Watch clip below- Fred Armisen as a Portland bike messenger. Portlandia is the new, six-part IFC miniseries that’s getting a lot of buzz around these parts for its attempts to poke fun at Portland’s idiosyncrasies. Back before the holidays, we shared a bit about it over on Page Two because, as you might expect, bicycling … Read more
“… a far more common sight than a chassis shattered in an explosion is now one destroyed in a nasty crash.”— The Economist The Economist, one of the world’s leading news magazines, has an article in this week’s issue that really caught my attention (it actually had several, but this one is relevant to BikePortland). … Read more
People cross N. Going Street at MLK.(Photo © J. Maus) A local TV news outlet is questioning the safety benefit of a crossing treatment recently completed as part of the N. Going bike boulevard project. I got an email from Scott Burton at KGW TV (Portland’s NBC affiliate) on Friday that they were doing a … Read more
The Oregonian’s John Canzano is sad that Portland’s Triple A baseball team (the Beavers) played their final home game on Sunday; but instead of using his column to reminisce about innings past, he decided to take a few swings at bike lanes. What do our bikeways have to do with baseball? Nothing. But that doesn’t … Read more
A new Streetfilm (watch it below) taken during the recent Velo-City Global conference in Copenhagen is like a refuge in a storm. Here in Portland (and across the country), we still struggle with resentment over bike lanes, a local media that’s happy to stir it up, people wanting to ban bikes completely because they’re simply … Read more
A scene from the film.(Photos © J. Maus) If aliens dropped into the free screening of PBS’s documentary Beyond Motor City at the Bagdad Theater Tuesday night, they would have gotten a crash course in America’s transportation history and the challenges we face as a nation to recover from our love affair with highways and … Read more