The “Laughs Last” section on the back page of Portland Monthly magazine’s October issue features an eye-catching illustration (see it below). It’s a make-believe movie poster for Collision Course, which is “Coming this Halloween to a Theater Near You” and stars “Bikers vs. Cars”. Under the movie title is the tagline: “Feel the spine-snapping suspense … Read more
This is a draft design concept created by Matt Cardinal for a permanent memorial to honor Brett Jarolimek at N. Interstate and Greeley Ave. The image is taken from a photograph by Bob Libby of Creative Dog Photography.
Which Cycle Zone do you ride in?–Watch slide presentation below– Alta Planning and Design and the City of Portland’s Office of Transportation have collaborated to develop “Cycle Zone Analysis”, a powerful new modeling tool that could have a significant impact on how Portland plans its future bikeways. PDOT’s bike coordinator Roger Geller presented the Cycle … Read more
A bike assembly area — like this one at the Christchurch Airport in New Zealand — might be installed at PDX by this spring.–More images below–(Photos courtesy Jason Gately/PDX) The Portland International Airport (PDX) hopes to become the first airport in the United States to offer bike assembly areas and other services for two-wheeled travelers. … Read more
Bike elevators for bridges are just one way Seoul, South Korea hopesto reach 10% bike mode share by 2020.(Graphic: Chosun Ilbo) Seoul, South Korea, a city with just 1.6% of their population regularly using bikes (Portland is at 6% by comparison) has set an aggressive plan to bump that up to 10% by 2020. They’ve … Read more
Red circle shows location of busted sewage line (map). The bike lane on SW Broadway between Montgomery and Harrison will be closed for up to a week due to a busted sewer line. Here’s the story from KGW: The city is just beginning its investigation into the burst pipe but says auto traffic will narrow … Read more
A reader (thanks Andrea) brought a sad story from Los Angeles to my attention. Here’s the snip from a report in the LA Times: “A woman in her 60s died this morning after being hit by a teenage bicyclist in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles police said. The woman was crossing the street in the 600 … Read more
Portlanders in Copenhagen. That’s PDOT’s head traffic engineer Rob Burchfield on the left (in blue).(Photo: Mikael Colville-Andersen) A delegation of Portlanders from Metro’s Blue Ribbon Committee for Trails recently completed a week-long exploration of bike policies, culture and infrastructure in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. Findings and recommendations from the trip will be presented at the final … Read more
New Hindsight glasses from Nike.(Photos: Nike via Gizmodo) A reader (thanks Austin!) just gave me a heads up on an interesting new product idea from Nike. Gadget blog Gizmodo reports that the new Hindsight glasses “are designed to do one simple thing: stop cyclists from getting hurt on the roads.” How do they do this?
“It’s winter and cold and dark, but that doesn’t mean you need to sit around and get blob-like.”— from the Pain in the Park website Jeff Henderson (the man behind the Oregon Trout City of Portland Triathlon) and his partner Jonathan Eng (a personal trainer) are launching “Pain in the Park“, a new series of … Read more
The ghost bike for Tracey Sparling (at the corner of W. Burnside and 14th in downtown Portland) with fresh flowers placed by family members on the one-year anniversary of her death.(Photos © J. Maus) A memorial sculpture and stencil (since removed) for Brett Jarolimek at the intersection of N. Interstate and Greeley.
[via Streetsblog] Nobel Prize winning economist and NY Times columnist Paul Krugman has given some powerful punditry to the recently launched “Build for America” campaign. In an Op Ed piece published last week, he wrote: “..right now, increased government spending is just what the doctor ordered, and concerns about the budget deficit should be put … Read more