John Pucher(Photo: Rutgers) Noted bicycle and pedestrian advocate, speaker, and Rutgers University Professor John Pucher has just written a new paper (to be published by the Oxford University journal Transport Reviews in July 2008) that might be the road map Portland takes to becoming a truly world-class bike city. The paper, titled Making Cycling Irresistible: … Read more
Noted bike and pedestrian planning firm Alta Planning and Design has bought a new building and plans to move its headquarters. The building is located at 711-713 SE Grand Ave on Portland’s east side (right next to River City Bicycles!). The firm, which has 14 employees and was recently featured in a NY Times article, … Read more
Watch this video (below) of Siobhan Doyle from her hospital bed. Siobhan is the woman who was hit while riding her bike on Interstate a few days ago. At about the 2:00 minute mark, Siobhan starts to tear up and shares some poignant, a bit unexpected, yet very important thoughts about sharing the road. This … Read more
[Updated: 11/9, 8:32am, 2:38pm – See update below about date/time change.] [This article is by BikePortland.org columnist Elly Blue] “The event will be a peaceful, legal, and highly visible statement that we all belong equally in our roads and public spaces and that we are all committed to working together…”–Elly Blue In response to last … Read more
Commissioner Adams has announced a public forum on bike safety to take place Wednesday (11/14). From the introduction to a post on CommissionerSam.com: “..we want to the public to know about what we’ve been doing in our office both in response to these specific tragedies, and to ensure that similar tragedies are prevented at all … Read more
Lawyer Bob Mionske Portland-based lawyer Bob Mionske, a former Olympian who writes a monthly legal column for VeloNews Magazine, has added yet another voice of concern over what he sees as a bias against bicyclists at the Portland Police Bureau. In his most recent VeloNews column, A fatal bias?, Mionske goes in-depth on four cases … Read more
[Updated: 11:28am] “The driver said the civilian investigation seems like a ‘vigilante’ move that won’t fix anything.”–From a story on KGW The Oregonian and KGW have picked up the story about an effort by a local lawyer to work toward a citation against the driver in Tuesday’s collision. Today’s Oregonian also features a forceful opinion … Read more
Scott Bricker, the Executive Director of the BTA, has posted an update on what he has been doing in light of ongoing community discussion surrounding enforcement issues. Here are excerpts from his post:
Chris Smith and his Biria.(Photo © Jonathan Maus) City Council hopeful and transportation activist Chris “Citizen” Smith plans to greet morning bike commuters on the Hawthorne Bridge tomorrow morning. In a campaign event reminiscent of Shift’s famous Breakfast in the Bridges, he’ll pass out coffee, pastries, and a bit of two-wheeled political persuasion in the … Read more
Busy bike racks at Trillium School in North Portland.(Photos © Jonathan Maus) Two recent experiences have left me thinking that more and more Portland families are ditching the family car and replacing it with the family bike. Yesterday morning, when I pulled up to the bike parking area in front of my daughter’s preschool, it … Read more
As you might have already heard, in June of 2008 Portland will host an international conference on the future of urban transportation and livability, a.k.a., Towards Carfree Cities; Rethinking Mobility, Rediscovering Proximity. Conference organizer Elly Blue just released their call for program proposals. Check it out:
“There just has to be some consequences for drivers who plow into cyclists.”–Julie Rawls, a witness to yesterday’s collision. The frustration of many people in the community has reached a boiling point. The well over one-hundred comments on this site (and others), emails and phone calls I’ve received, and messages on local email lists leave … Read more