🚨 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 🙏
Alder Street cycle track near UO.(Photos: Will Vanlue) During a recent trip to Eugene, I had the pleasure of going for a bike ride with Shane MacRhodes, Program Manager of Eugene Safe Routes to School, and Bob Passaro, publisher of Eugene Bicyclist to see recent improvements in bicycle access around the city. Despite seeing a … Read more
(Photos © J. Maus) It’s been a big month for sharing and two new projects in the works are likely to have a major impact on how Portlanders get around. Last week, a key Metro committee approved $2 million in federal funding that will help start up the Portland Bike Sharing project. Once fully rolled … Read more
PBOT Director Tom Miller is juggling two major projects in the Lloyd District.(Photo © J. Maus) Back on Friday, we shared a major update on the City of Portland’s NE Holladay Street project. Here’s a quick rewind: After a stakeholder advisory committee (SAC) spent almost a year debating, refining and compromising a proposal to vastly … Read more
Downtown Tigard will soon bemore welcoming to bicycle traffic.(Photos: Will Vanlue) This past summer, the City of Tigard completed improvements to Burnham Street, one component of their downtown core. Now they’re finalizing plans for Main Street (located along Highway 99, 10 miles south of downtown Portland), and by the summer of 2013 we’ll see improvements … Read more
The Tonquin Trail was awarded over $5 million. Last week the Portland Bike Sharing Project stole the limelight as Metro’s Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation (JPACT) voted on a package of projects to receive the 2014-15 allocation of federal “regional flexible funding“. As per a hard-fought compromise, 75% of the $23 million in project … Read more
Cover of ECF study A new study by the European Cyclists Federation (ECF) offers an in-depth comparison between the CO2 emissions of bicycling versus other modes of transportation. The new study is aimed at encouraging policy makers to make bicycle promotion a larger part of their greenhouse gas emission reduction toolkit. What makes the study … Read more
Waiting for new owners.(Photos: Britt Appleton/CCC) The Community Cycling Center held their 16th annual Holiday Bike Drive yesterday. The event connected over 400 kids from low-income families with a newly refurbished bike, a helmet, basic safety education and most importantly, the freedom and sheer joy that comes with having your own two wheels. We weren’t … Read more
History of the neighborhood looms large over this project.(Photo © J. Maus) At their meeting earlier this week, the Stakeholder Advisory Committee for the North Williams Traffic Safety Operations Project spent several hours hashing out new language to guide their decision making process and to add two key elements to the project’s “purpose and objectives.”
NE Multnomah Street in the Lloyd District could be going on a diet. It’s been over two months since we last reported on the NE Holladay Street project. Remember that one? Part of a trio of Lloyd District Bikeway Development Projects, it was supposed to make NE Holladay an east-west arterial for bike traffic to … Read more
Charlie Hales photographed in my office a few weeks ago.(Photos © J. Maus) Welcome to the first in a series of interviews with candidates for Portland mayor. With the primary elections just about five months away, it’s time to start doing your research and learning more about the people we’ll elect to lead our city.
In situations like this, where the Fanno Creek Trail meets a busy street, mid-block crossings are key.(Photo © J. Maus) When you’re riding around Washington County, off-street trails and paths serve as an important alternative to wide arterial roads with freeway-speed traffic. The only trouble comes when a trail or path intersects a road mid-block, … Read more
The future is bright for junior racers in Oregon;but your support could make it brighter.(Photo © J. Maus) With the popularity of cyclocross stoking the fire and the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association (OBRA) tending the flames, Oregon’s racing scene has flourished in the last few years. A key to that success is the involvement of … Read more