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Community helps recover stolen cargo bike used in homeless youth outreach program
These images of a discarded bike sparked some sleuthing and action that led to a successful recovery.
(Photos by Mary C.)
(Photos by Mary C.)
It started with an email from a concerned Portlander and it ended with a bike being reunited with its owner — who in this case happened to be a non-profit organization that works with young people experiencing homelessness. There were no police involved, only people in our community who care about each other and who have an eye for bikes.
How much should parking permits cost? Four ways the city could find out
Space is valuable. But who wants to vote on what it’s worth?
(Photos: M.Andersen and J.Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos: M.Andersen and J.Maus/BikePortland)
Last year, Portland hired a top-dollar consulting firm for advice on the best way to manage the auto parking that’s become increasingly scarce in a few neighborhoods.
Twelve months later, the city is taking steps toward some of its recommendations: for example, proposing an opt-in parking permit system that would let residential neighborhoods block their street parking spaces from being used by people living or shopping on commercial corridors.
But at the moment, Portland is on course to ignore a different suggestion made very clearly by the firm, Nelson\Nygaard: that elected officials should “never, ever” be the ones to set the price of parking.
City plans protected bike lanes for NW Lovejoy and Broadway at post office site
The city aims for only 15 percent of trips to the new site to arrive by personal vehicle.
(Images: PDC)
(Images: PDC)
Portland’s proposals for redeveloping its downtown post office include what would be a huge biking upgrade for the north side of downtown.
The “preferred alternative” plan (PDF) currently being circulated by the Portland Development Commission includes not only some sort of new descent from the Broadway Bridge directly to the North Park Blocks, but also protected bike lanes extending south on Broadway and west on Lovejoy Street.
BikePortland 10th Birthday Party is Friday! Here’s an update
We’re just two days away from our 10th Birthday Party!
This Friday night at Velo Cult a few hundred BikePortlanders will gather for a night of toasts to a great decade and hopefully many more to come. It will be a time to celebrate and it will be a time to step up and become an official supporter so we can have another big party in 2025. (Full details on our new BikePortlander subscription program will be announced on the site Friday before the party.)
Just so you know what you’re in for, here’s a quick update:
DA declines criminal prosecution in case of man whose leg was severed in collision – UPDATED
Alistair Corkett at a bike safety meeting
in City Hall three weeks after losing his leg in
a traffic collision.
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
in City Hall three weeks after losing his leg in
a traffic collision.
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office announced today that they will not pursue criminal charges in the case of Alistair Corkett, the man whose leg was severed in a traffic collision at SE 26th and Powell back in May.
In a seven-page memo, Senior Deputy District Attorney Glen Banfield explains that the man driving the 1988 Dodge Pickup that collided with Corkett might have been careless or even negligent, but his actions do not rise to the legal threshold necessary for a finding of criminal negligence.
According to the DA’s office and the Portland Police Bureau’s investigation, here are some facts in the case:
Cyclocross racers will ‘Bike Against Cancer’ tonight at Alpenrose
People who participate in the weekly Blind Date at the Dairy cyclocross race series tonight will have a little extra motivation to pedal through the pain: They’ll be battling cancer with each spin of the legs.
Series organizers have teamed up with OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute for Bike Against Cancer, a one-lap fundraiser race. The race will start at 5:45 pm at Alpenrose Dairy in southwest Portland.
Blind Date organizer Joe Field says he’d doing the event to raise awareness and money for cancer research.
Weekend Recap: Scavenger hunt, cyclocross racing, and bikes for kids
One of the Bike Scout Scavenger Hunt troops before their big adventure.
(Photo by Ayleen Crotty)
(Photo by Ayleen Crotty)
Salmonberry Trail to the coast hits milestone, begins fundraising effort
The Salmonberry Trail would connect Banks
to Tillamook on the Oregon Coast.
(Map by Oregon State Parks & Rec)
to Tillamook on the Oregon Coast.
(Map by Oregon State Parks & Rec)
The proposed Salmonberry Trail, a path that would connect Washington County to the Pacific coast through the forest along a defunct rail line, has an official name and is about to get a full-time executive director.
Previously referred to as the “Salmonberry Corridor,” the trail also has an 11-member decision-making body with formal power to start raising the unknown millions that’d be required for the 86-mile proposal.
The Salmonberry Coalition will celebrate those milestones at its annual meeting next month. The public event is 10 a.m. to noon on Friday, Oct. 9, at Stub Stewart State Park.
Advocate: County survey needs input from rural road users, not just residents
Riding on the County-maintained Skyline Blvd.
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Welcome to one of the first in our series of occasional “Advocate” posts. These are quick, simple opportunities to get involved in making the Portland area better for biking.
Multnomah County is updating its wide-reaching long-range plans in ways that matter deeply to residents of the relatively few urban streets owned by the county government.
The result is that people who live on those streets — notably for bike users, Northwest Skyline Boulevard and Corbett in the western Colombia Gorge — have weighed in about the importance of bike transportation to the county, but most residents of the county haven’t.
Let’s find these tricycles stolen from a 65-year old wheelchair user
(Photos: Portland Police Bureau)
I’ve been seeing a deluge of bike theft headlines in my media streams these past few weeks and I’m really getting tired of it.
With Hales hogging headlines, Wheeler challenges him to 12 “in-depth” debates
(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
You’ve seen it. We’ve seen it. Portland mayoral candidate Ted Wheeler has seen it.
“If my presence in the race lights a fire under the mayor, how can that be anything but a good thing?”
— Ted Wheeler, candidate for mayor
Since Wheeler entered the mayoral race earlier this month Mayor Charlie Hales has been on a tear. From climate change to homelessness to bicycling, Hales has become more animated and action-oriented.
In a letter to Hales today, Wheeler all but accused the incumbent of copying his stance on issues and then challenged him to 12 “in-depth” debates.
“When I announced my candidacy for mayor,” Wheeler states in the letter, “I noted that our city had a homelessness crisis; last week, you declared it an emergency. Two weeks ago, I voiced my support for a gas tax; last Friday, you decided to agree.”