Updated Bike There! map and Google Earth
This Google Earth screenshot shows the newly updated Metro Bike There! map overlayed with a 3-D satellite view of Portland.
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How’d bikes fare in the Best of Portland?
Bike-friendly streets were chosen as one of the top five reasons to move to Portlandby Willamette Week readers.(File photo) In case you hadn’t noticed, local weekly newspaper The Willamette Week put out their Best of Portland issue today. Inside are the results of their staff picks in a variety of categories and results from a … Read more
Bike lanes improved through safety project
This photo shows major lane re-alignment at Williams and Fremont.(File photo) The Portland Development Commission (PDC) and the Portland Department of Transportation (PDOT) are throwing a public party in north Portland tomorrow night to celebrate the completion of the first phase of their Vancouver-Williams Transportation Safety Project.
CRC project announces more open houses
I’ve been meaning to post an update about how bicycles are fairing in the the Columbia River Crossing Project. A cyclist on the I-5 Bridge.(File photo) A 25 member Bike/Ped Advisory Committee has been meeting regularly for the past few months. You can learn more about who’s on the committee and read their meeting notes … Read more
Mercury, Bus Project to host bike/car debate
As part of their monthly Debate Club series, the Bus Project and the Portland Mercury will host a bikes versus cars debate next Tuesday. The debate will include interim BTA director Scott Bricker, me, Sreya Sarkar of the Cascade Policy Institute’s Wheels to Wealth Program and Mel Zucker of the Oregon Transportation Institute. The debate … Read more
Policymakers connect on bi-state ride
Former Mayors Bud Clark and Vera Katz.(File photo) The meaning of last Friday’s Tour of Tomorrow bike ride can be summed up by one simple fact: a majority of the Metro Council (4 of 7 members) rode the entire 40 mile, bi-state route. The ride — which was created by Oregonian columnist and Cycle Oregon … Read more
Sauvie Island bridge might still end up in the Pearl
It’s been over a year since I reported on the status of an idea to re-purpose the Sauvie Island Bridge as a super-sized bicycle and pedestrian crossing over the 405 freeway at Flanders Boulevard looking East.
PDOT, Paris and the potential for bike-sharing in Portland
[Updated: 7/24, 7:34am] A bike-sharing system in Vienna.Photo: Ethan Jewett By now, everyone’s heard of the “Velib” bike-sharing program launched by Paris earlier this month. That program — whose name so poetically is formed from the French words for “bike” and “liberty” — placed 10,600 bikes at 750 stations for use by Parisians and tourists … Read more
Bike friendliness puts Portland on two more “Best of” lists
Seems like a week can’t go by without Portland making it onto another list. If you’re keeping track, here’s two more I came across today, and they both specifically mention bike-friendliness as a reason for our inclusion. The first one I found about via Jack Bog’s Blog. He points out that the AARP has named … Read more
Report from Corvallis: Bike love at daVinci Days
[Editor’s note: This story comes from first-time BikePortland correspondent Brad Upton.] The theme of daVinci Days this year was Motion and Commotion, and bikes were featured prominently in the celebration. The festival is famous for it’s Kinetic Sculpture competition every year, and this year there were lots of cool pedal powered artistic creations from all … Read more
Sprockettes roll into the law in Ashland
Agent Crush never got a chanceto flex her muscles in Ashland.(File photo) The Sprockettes tour is off to a memorable start. The ladies rolled into the southern Oregon city of Ashland last Thursday hoping to liven up the town with an impromptu performance in Lithia Park. Unfortunately, a few of Ashland’s men in blue didn’t … Read more
Burnside Bridge closure postponed
This morning on the Burnside Bridge.(File photo) As the photo at right (which I snapped this morning) can attest, bike fun on the Burnside Bridge will have to wait a few weeks. The bridge was expected to be closed to all motorized vehicle traffic for the next three weeks but now plans have changed. Here’s … Read more