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6/20: Hello readers and friends. I am having my second (of two) total knee replacement surgeries today so I'll be out of commission for a bit while I recover. Please be patient while I get back to full health. I hope to be back to posting as soon as I can. I look forward to getting back out there. 🙏. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
Bicycle Dreams shows at Clinton Street Theather on Wednesday. Fridays and weekends aren’t the only time awesome bike events happen in and around Portland. I’ve come across three notables this week I felt were worth sharing… Tomorrow, noted bike researcher and head of the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium, Jennifer Dill, will give what … Read more
Cover of City Club’s Forest Park: A Call to Action.–Download PDF here– Deciding how to move forward with improved and expanded biking opportunities in Forest Park got a lot more complicated last week. On Thursday, the City Club of Portland released a 65-page report on Forest Park that, among other things, states unequivocally that there … Read more
A good sign. (Photos © J. Maus) This morning on my way to the office, a sign at the corner of North Michigan and Alberta caught my eye; it read “Beach Bike Train meet up spot – 8:30 – Join Us.” It was about 8:25, so I decided to wait around and see if anyone … Read more
A SmartBikeDC kiosk in D.C.(Photos © J. Maus) Alta Bicycle Share, sister company of Portland-based Alta Planning + Design, will operate the largest bike-sharing system in the United States when Washington D.C. expands their SmartBikeDC program into Arlington, Virginia later this year. Plans announced today by D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and other regional officials say … Read more
Portland Streetcar crews are in the middle of major construction all along Broadway right now. Work zones are always of special concern for people on bikes, but this stretch of Broadway — between NE Grand and and the Broadway Bridge — is not a nice place for bike traffic even without construction. Add in one … Read more
[Contributor Michael Andersen is the editor of Portland Afoot, a forthcoming “10-minute newsmagazine” and wiki about low-car life in Portland, especially TriMet riders. Their launch issue comes out June 1.]
A Breakfast on the Bridge was held Wednesday to celebrate the newly revampedpath on the Going Street Bridge.(Photos © J. Maus) Yesterday was a good day for Lenny Anderson. For a man well-known to local politicians and city employees as a persistently unsatisfied advocate, he was smiling and singing the Bureau of Transportation’s praises. “I’ve … Read more
Flyer for “No Drill, No Spill, No Kill” Critical Mass ride planned in New Orleans.
Every city should have five of these racks in front of their City Hall.(Photo © J. Maus) Oregon is a state on a mission. For the last few years, the movement to make this the premiere state for bicycling has been gaining some serious momentum. We’ve got nearly every piece of the puzzle on the … Read more
“This is precisely why the BTA, WPC [Willamette Pedestrian Coalition] and I are calling for a vehicular homicide law. There ought to be some higher level of consequence when you use a deadly weapon to kill someone, even if you didn’t do it on purpose. — Ray Thomas, lawyer Yesterday, Multnomah County Senior Deputy District … Read more
ODOT’s Betsy Imholt.(Photo: Daniel Ronan) The Obama Administration recently green-lighted money for development of a rail corridor between Eugene and Portland and the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is hosting a series of open houses to discuss the project. I recently spoke with ODOT’s rail program study director Betsy Imholt and attended the open house … Read more
Asst. Chief Larry O’Dea.(Photo © J. Maus) As I noted yesterday, there have been a lot of changes at the Portland Police Bureau lately and the Traffic Division – the arm of the bureau that is engaged with biking and transportation issues — has not been immune to them. Today, former TD captain and now … Read more