How Sunday Parkways helps bridge Portland’s racial divides (video)
Biking connects us with our neighbors and surroundings in a way that driving can’t.
Neighborhoods
Outreach begins for likely upgrades to SE 82nd Avenue
It’s lined up for some changes – maybe even including a bikeway.
City looks for alternatives to door-zone bike lane on new street in South Waterfront
Well, this would definitely be odd if it happened.
Lane blockage on SW Stark presents a different kind of bike commute ‘challenge’
Oh the daily injustices of biking.
‘Bike Week’ is start of something big in outer east Portland
10 miles east of downtown Portland, the fuse for a bright cycling future has been lit.
‘Carefree Commuter Challenge’ starts July 1st
The Carefree Commuter Challenge starts next month and the folks at Drive Less Save More are expecting over 2,000 people from across the region to take part. The Challenge is just one component of a state-funded marketing program aimed at encouraging folks to get around with something other than their car. Drive Less Save More … Read more
Proposed ‘Scenic Bikeway’ would connect Hillsboro to Banks-Vernonia Trail
The beautiful roads just outside Hillsboro.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Oregon’s State Scenic Bikeway program has really taken off in recent years. Routes have sprung up all over the state and they’re spurring economic development and providing people with great bike adventures. But so far, none of them are very close to Portland. Now comes word … Read more
Tonquin Trail gets new name and a master plan
Rollin’ through the Ice Age.(Photo: Metro) The Tonquin Trail — a 22 mile system of paths that will someday connect the cities of Sherwood, Tualatin and Wilsonville — is now officially named the Ice Age Tonquin Trail. The project has also just completed a master plan that is set to be forwarded onto city, regional, … Read more
Persistent activism gets ODOT and police focused on Sylvan overpass problems
Google street view of Sylvan overpass.
Bike safety among concerns with proposed 7-Eleven in Vernon neighborhood
Corner of 15th and Killingsworth. Residents of the Vernon Neighborhood in northeast Portland are organizing opposition to a proposed 7-Eleven at the corner of NE Killingsworth and 15th (map). Among their list of concerns about the potential store are how it would impact traffic safety — particularly among people walking and biking. In a newsletter … Read more
Hillsboro school custodian starts student bike repair program
Still from KATU News video (watch their story here). A reader brought to our attention a great story about the power of bicycles and how one person can make a difference. The head custodian at Poynter Middle School in Hillsboro, John Sarrazin, has turned a chance encounter with a student who needed help fixing his … Read more
PCC Cascade eyes multi-level parking garage on Michigan Ave
PCC has determined that the corner of Michigan and Killingsworth would be the best location for a multi-story parking garage.(Photo © J. Maus) Portland Community College’s Cascade campus is considering the construction of a four-story parking garage on the northeast corner of N Michigan and Killingsworth. The project is part of district-wide expansion plans funded … Read more