🚨 Please note that BikePortland slows down during this time of year as I have family in town and just need a break! Please don't expect typical volume of news stories and content. I'll be back in regular form after the new year. Thanks. - Jonathan 🙏
New or used?(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Bicycle Retailer & Industry News reported on an interesting (forthcoming) study from marketing and research firm The Gluskin Townley Group yesterday. The report compared the demographics and buying habits of buyers of used bikes versus buyers of new bikes. Here’s more from BRAIN: Owners of bikes they bought used … Read more
The central question for study is the role bicycling should play in Portland’s overall transportation system.— City Club of Portland, from the Comprehensive Study Charge The City Club of Portland is embarking on a “comprehensive study” of bicycling. For those of you not familiar with this organization, it’s a respected, local non-profit institution with 1,500 … Read more
Yellow arrow shows location of old pole. (Photo taken this morning)
Phil Sano outside the Clinton Street Theater last Friday.(Photo © J. Maus) Fresh off his “Bike Smut” world tour, filmmaker, nudity activist, and bike fun provocateur Phil Sano (a.k.a. “Reverend Phil”) is launching a new weekly show at the Clinton Street Theater. Here’s more from Sano via a press release sent out this morning: Bike … Read more
Well known local rider, bike advocate, and lawyer Mark Ginsberg collided with a MAX train while crossing E. Burnside in January 2011.(Photo © J. Maus) The intersection of E Burnside, 97th Ave, and the I-205 multi-use path seems to have a worse safety record than I first realized. It’s more dangerous than I realized when … Read more
2012 Alice Award Winners: Gail Achterman John Landolfe and Brett Dobson The von Borg Family Will Vanlue The Bicycle Transportation Alliance has just named their 2012 Alice B. Toeclips award winners… And one of them is BikePortland contributor Will Vanlue! Check the winners and excerpts from the BTA’s website about each of them below… Gail … Read more
Gail Achterman’s husband Chuck McGinnis (L), his son Daniel McGinnis and daughter-in-law Cheryl McGinnis, plant a tree in her honor along the I-205 path.(Photos: Friends of Trees) Gail Achterman was honored over the weekend when friends, family, and colleagues planted more than a dozen oak trees in her memory along the I-205 path in SE … Read more
Location where MAX tracks cross E Burnside.Crosslin was traveling from the right side of the image to the left. This morning, the MAX tracks on East Burnside just east of I-205 (at SE 97th Ave) caused Portland resident Thomas Crosslin to crash his bike. Thomas crosses these tracks every day on his commute from East … Read more
Director of PBOT, Tom Miller, at the Oregon Active Transportation Summit. During a speech at the Oregon Active Transportation Summit in Salem yesterday, PBOT Director Tom Miller got advocates up to speed on the funding crisis at the agency and organizational changes they’ve made that could reap benefits for bicycling. In addition, Miller made the … Read more
(Photo: UO Bike Program) The Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) has approved a $199,000 investment to launch a bike share system on the Eugene campus. The system will be initially launched with four rental stations and 40 bikes and it will be managed by the UO Bike Program. UO Bike Program Coordinator … Read more
Rules that would have outlawed ATVs and other motorized vehicles in nearly 4,000 miles ofeastern Oregon forest land have been put on pause.(Photo: US Forest Service) A management plan released last month by the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest that would have prohibited motorized travel on nearly 4,000 miles of eastern Oregon backcountry roads, has been withdrawn. … Read more
Mock-up of proposed Major Taylor mural on N. Shaver between Williams and Vancouver.