🚨 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 🙏
Big crowd at the Oregon Bicycle Tourism Partnership meeting. The 2012 Oregon Active Transportation Summit is going strong down here in Salem. As I type, a room full of engineers and planners are listening to a trio of bike gurus from the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) explain the ins-and-outs of the latest bikeway designs. … Read more
Filmed by Bike volunteer Meghan Sinnott added a bit of glitz to the party.(Photos © J. Maus) Despite a bit of water falling from the sky, Portlanders took to SE Clinton Street on Friday night to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Filmed by Bike. There was drinking, dancing, talking, and being seen among a healthy … Read more
The action starts this week and it’s now open to men and women of all ages and abilities.(Words and photos by Pat Malach/Oregon Cycling Action)
Cover of the French Prarie Bike-Ped Emergency Bridge Briefing Booklet (PDF). [Patrick Croasdaile contributed reporting to this story.] This coming Monday, the Wilsonville City Council will convene an important work session that could determine the future of the French Prairie Bike-Ped Emergency Bridge over the Willamette River. The City of Wilsonville was awarded a $1.25 … Read more
New tracks on Lovejoy.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) There’s been a big development in a legal battle up in Seattle that has similarities to an issue we have here in Portland. As we shared back in June 2010, several Seattle residents who crashed while bicycling across streetcar tracks filed a lawsuit claiming that the City of … Read more
Drawing of project in Hillsboro that will come with a cycle track. I tell a lot of people there are exciting things happening in Washington County and two examples have popped up recently in Hillsboro. First, the City of Hillsboro is forming a new citizen subcommittee to advise the City on issues pertaining to biking … Read more
Fritz (L) and Nolan (R)(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
One would expect the decline to continue.(Graphics: City of Portland/Multnomah County) A new two-year progress report on Portland and Mutnomah County’s 2009 Climate Action Plan released today (PDF) shows per person carbon emissions have dropped 26 percent in Multnomah County since 1990. Overall, emissions are 6 percent below 1990 levels. These reductions come despite a … Read more
The bike parking at Stoel Rives.(Photo: BTA) For the second year in a row, local publication Portland Afoot has released a ranking of the top local employers for low-car commuters — that is, people who get to work primarily via transit, by foot, or by bike. Atop the list is a three-way tie for first … Read more
These green spaces around Happy Valley would be tied together with the newly proposed Mt. Scott/Scouter Mt. Trail Loop. Metro is prepping for the public unveiling of an exciting new network of paths that span from just south of the Powell Butte Nature Park all the way down to the Clackamas River. The Mt. Scott/Scouter … Read more
Detail from Eastbank Freeway Tunnel Alternative draft plan released by Mayor Sam Adams today. Note the new arterial road (blue) and new connections to the riverfront (green arrows).
This drawing from 2001 by Riverfront for People shows what the central eastside (just south of Hawthorne Bridge) could look like without I-5 running through it. A report by The Oregonian today says Mayor Adams is shopping this idea around.