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“If I would have been a pedestrian or on a regular bike, I would have been dead…I feel like an attempt was made on my life. I told the cop I was assaulted but for some reason this was put on the backburner. They told me my case was placed at a low priority.”— pedicab … Read more
Screen grab from animation about bikes, stop signs, and the Idaho Stop Law by Spencer Boomhower. Watch it below. Lots of stop sign news at BikePortland headquarters today. I spent my morning out at SE Water and Caruthers where city crews recently removed two stop signs that were deemed unnecessary, I just got off the … Read more
The Portland Police Bureau Traffic Division has chosen a new captain. Officer Eric Hendricks, who has been in the bureau for 23 years and was most recently in charge of its Training Division, will now lead the Traffic Division. Assistant Chief and former Traffic Division Captain Larry O’Dea shared the news with me yesterday and … Read more
[Editor’s note: This story was written by BikePortland News Intern Dan Liu. Stay tuned for more photos and stories from Dan!] Volunteer James Moore in action.(Photos: Dan Liu) Last fall, North Portland bike repair and tool co-op Bike Farm celebrated its one-year anniversary by moving into a new space — one where the young non-profit … Read more
The eBike Store openedlast week in North Portland.(Photos © J. Maus) Opening a new retail business in the midst of an historic economic downturn isn’t exactly a safe bet, especially when there’s not a very big existing market for your product. But that didn’t stop Wake Gregg from opening Portland’s first all-electric bicycle store, The … Read more
Pedicab company operator Ryan Hashagen.(Photos © J. Maus) Last week, we published an interview with Portland Cascadia Pedicabs owner Ryan Hashagen. In it, Hashagen shared serious concerns about new policies being crafted by the City of Portland’s Revenue Bureau that would bring pedicabs under regulation for the first time. Hashagen told BikePortland, and many other … Read more
More fun with the city’s Bicycle Master Plan. As part of our ongoing look at the City of Portland’s Bicycle Master Plan update process, I thought it might be fun to take a look at some of the new bicycle infrastructure ideas being considered for use in Portland. The City has published a draft of … Read more
Conrad Miller (Jayme S. Hall) and Steve Jones (Elle Poindexter) in a screenshot from the film.-Watch the trailer below- The Bicyclists, a new movie based on The Bicyclist webisode series, premieres tonight at the Hollywood Theater. The entire film was shot in Portland and is steeped in local bike culture. The story revolves around Conrad … Read more
A shot of the Gateway Green Bicycle Concept Plan.
A story published online by KGW yesterday contains incorrect information about the SE Clinton Road Rage case that are leading some Portlanders to get the wrong idea about what happened. These inaccuracies — one of which they are making again, even after they changed it when I brought it to their attention in 2007 — … Read more
Temporary markings were painted back in June… but now they’re gone and the plans are in flux.
[Note: I reported this news yesterday as an update to a previous story. This post is being done to clarify the latest development.] “I am pleased to inform you that…we will be able to continue staffing the Bicycle/Pedestrian CAC in the near term.”— Jane McFarland, Senior Transportation Planner for Multnomah County After they initially planned … Read more