NE Broadway looking west across Williams.(Photos © J. Maus) The intersection of NE Broadway and N Williams is notorious among many Portlanders. The intersection (view on Google Maps) is a high-volume, high-speed, five-lane, one-way thoroughfare with a bike lane sandwiched between two right-turn lanes (one is also a through lane). That makes it bad enough, … Read more
Order yours today! After a tumultuous design revision process, the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles says they’re ready to start re-issuing the Share the Road license plate. The plate was approved by the Legislature in the 2008 session and was supposed to be made available on January 1st, 2008. However, due to a misunderstanding between … Read more
House CAO Dan Beard(Photo House CAO Office) Dan Beard, the Chief Administrative Officer of the U.S. House of Representatives will be in Portland later this week. Beard is slated to speak about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “Green the Capitol” initiative at the Better Living Show coming to the Portland Expo Center on Sunday (3/29). Pelosi’s … Read more
Officer Voepel keeps a watchful eye on the new bike box.(Photos © J. Maus) This morning, officers from the Portland Police Bureau’s Traffic Division began a series of targeted enforcement missions at the new bike box on SE Hawthorne Blvd. Traffic Division Lieutenant Bryan Parman and three of his officers were on hand to watch … Read more
One thing that makes the Columbia River Crossing (CRC) project such a headache for policy makers, and for anyone trying to make sense of the debate, is that it involves two places with very different ideas about planning for transportation and population growth.
Monsieur Timo Forsberg at the Alice Awards.View Gallery(Photos © J. Maus) Neary 800 bike advocates from all over Oregon spent Saturday night toasting each other’s accomplishments at the 13th annual Alice Awards and Auction held at the Oregon Convention Center. The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) hosts the event and they made sure there was enough … Read more
This just in from the organizers of the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic… Mt Hood Cycling Classic Adds Two-Day “Tour de Hood” Recreational Ride Challenge
This article is by contributor Carl Larson. Carl previously wrote about the Zoobomb art rack project.
[Via the Portland Mercury Blog] Check out City Council candidate Harold C Williams Two. He’s announced a run and bike ride he hopes will end with a job at City Hall:
The City of Portland’s Bureau of Maintenance is pushing forward to improve bike/truck safety.
Bike parking at the Memorial Coliseum this morning.(Photo © J. Maus) Regrettably I won’t be inside the Barack Obama rally this morning. However, I did stop by the Coliseum on my way into the office to check out the bike parking situation. While there are definitely a lot of bikes parked illegally (a technicality, since … Read more
Cyclists in front of the Memorial Coliseum during a ride in 2006.(Photo © J. Maus) Volunteers working on Barack Obama’s event in Portland tomorrow at the Memorial Coliseum are scrambling to make sure they’ve got enough bike parking capacity. They’re well aware of what happened back in February when cyclists didn’t find enough parking at … Read more