Note: I'm currently on a family trip and not working normal hours. Email and message responses will be delayed and story and posting volumes here and on our social media accounts will not be at their usual levels until I return to Portland August 12th. Thanks for your patience and understanding. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
Hosted by our founder, editor and publisher Jonathan Maus, the BikePortland Podcast features interviews with newsmakers, timely conversations about major issues, reporting from the field, and more.
Having bike fun withdrawals after Pedalpalooza? Take a listen to our latest podcast where we’re joined by Carl Larson for a serious discussion about bike fun (and kitten parades, naked people, and lots more).
Download Episode Portland’s traffic signal guru, Peter Koonce, in our podcast studio.(Photo J.Maus/BikePortland) When you change something about a traffic signal, people don’t notice. They simply obey. Well, mostly. Maybe that’s why signals have quietly become one of the most important and unique ways that Portland has made itself a better place for walking, biking … Read more
If you are what you wear, being yourself is often a challenge for people who ride bikes.
Who speaks for those who ride? Do they speak for all of us who ride? What about all of us who want to?
It’s marginalized, belittled and ignored, but people keep doing it because it’s practical, affordable and fun – and Portland is leading the nation in thinking about it as a useful form of transportation.
Jonathan, Lily and I sat down this month for a new holiday-season tradition at BikePortland: answering as many listener questions as we possibly could in 25 minutes.
Here’s how it works: You ask us something (anything) about the transportation-culture-bike-media sphere in 2013, and if we have time, we answer it.
Yes, it was eight years ago when then Transportation Commissioner Sam Adams first got excited about the idea and pledged to launch a system in Portland.
Why on earth would someone want to ride for days on the side of a road in the middle of nowhere?
