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After being known as a city where bicycles ruled the streets, in recent years China has become the leading automobile market in the world. Unfortunately, they’re so excited about cars that major cities are choked with congestion. Now the word on the street is that they’re finally starting to slow down on their car buying … Read more
Anyone that rides north/south in the Central Eastside Industrial district (a place woefully lacking in north/south connections) will appreciate this. The other day I noticed that the old rail tracks that had made the ride very bumpy, annoying, and dangerous (for some), have been paved over! It’s now a nice a smooth ride! See the … Read more
This just in from Portland Parks & Recreation Dept: Routine repairs to Eastbank Esplanade floating dock throughout November (Portland, OR) – Repairs to the side planks on the gangway leading down to the floating dock of the Eastbank Esplanade will begin Monday, November 1 and are expected to last between three to four weeks. During … Read more
See below for details… Winner of the Bend Film Festival 2009 Katie Merrit Audience Choice Award, Brian, is coming to the Hollywood Theatre on October 24th, 2010 at 4:00 pm. Honoring the memory of Oregon native, Portlander and avid cyclist Brian Reynolds, this film documents his journey to Crater Lake with his completion of Cycle … Read more
MEDIA ADVISORY: Film festival is Tues. night at Bagdad, part of Rail~Volution conference WHAT REEL.LIVE.CITIES. is an evening of films, entertainment, food and drink that is open to the public and organized by the New Rail~Volutionaries, a group of new Rail~Volution conference attendees from the Portland area. More than 300 tickets have already been purchased … Read more
The Citizen’s Advisory Committee for the City of Portland’s 50s Bikeway Project will meet for a ride Saturday to explore potential alignments. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, PBOT is moving on this project and now is the time to get involved and share your feedback and insights to make sure they get things … Read more
Note the PBOT traffic advisory below (emphasis mine).. Portland Bureau of Transportation: All traffic signals at the intersection of N Greeley and Interstate are not working because of a crash this morning. They are not expected to work until this evening. TriMet trains and buses will be accommodated as the City of Portland responds to … Read more
Portland Fox TV affiliate station KPTV has published an article on their website titled, No Texting In Car? Doesn’t Work For Mom: Car Becomes Mobile Office. The article is written by Laura Lewis Brown, a syndicated columnist who writes for LifeWhile.com. The article is a bit shocking given the massive national effort to combat distracted … Read more
A creative bicycling promotion campaign in Malmo, Sweden is worth our attention. According to Copenhagenize, the campaign has been “a massive success” over the past several years. It would be very exciting if we had a similar effort going on here in Portland. Check out the excellent video below to learn more about it… No … Read more
Below is the BTA press release about the 2010 Bike Commute Challenge. 2010 BTA’s Bike Commute Challenge: More than 1 Million Miles and 2,500 New Bike Commuters! October 8, 2010 – Every September since 1995, workers in Oregon and SW Washington have competed to see who can bike to work more in the BTA’s Bike … Read more
If you live/ride/work out in Washington County, here’s an event you might want to check out: Join us for Values and Vision: A Candidates Forum on Growth and Transportation As our region manages future growth, how will we keep our cherished quality of life? How can we keep traffic congestion from getting worse? Join 1000 … Read more
Cover A new book coming from Copenhagen titled, City of Bicycles will take an in-depth look at that famous bike city’s culture. I’m really looking forward to this because most of what I know about Copenhagen is more of the infrastructure, policy and planning side of things. ‘City of Bicycles’ is due for release on … Read more
Comment of the Week: Steve Novick asked a question, and boy did we answer