4/25: Hello readers and friends. I'm still recovering from a surgery I had on 4/11, so I'm unable to attend events and do typical coverage. See this post for the latest update. I'll work as I can and I'm improving every day! Thanks for all your support 🙏. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor

Black/White Giant TCRComp 2 2012

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Year: 2012
Brand: Giant
Model: TCRComp 2
Color:Black/White
Size:Medium
Serial: GC1Z0863
Photo: http://www.giant-bicycles.com/_generated/_generated_us/bikes/models/images/2000/2014/TCR_Composite_2_compact_black.jpg
Stolen in Portland, OR 97214
Stolen:2014-06-7
Stolen From: 2433 SE Ladd Avenue – actually from our garage which is behind on our house on the alley which faces Division – right across the street from the side entrance to New Seasons
Neighborhood: Ladds Addition
Owner: MaryKay West
OwnerEmail: mwest1962(AT)comcast.net
Reward: $200.00
Description: Carbon frame racing bike with clip in pedals, black aero bars and a white fiberglass water bottle cage. Handle bars wrapped in white. Black helmet also stolen.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 14-47727
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Tualatin River Greenway, TriMet Bike & Rides among likely ‘Connect Oregon’ grant winners

A committee set up to review applications for a major state funding program made their final selections yesterday and projects that will improve bicycling — including bike parking at the Goose Hollow MAX station — fared well. $42 million in state-backed Lottery funds were up for grabs in the Connect Oregon program this cycle (its fifth) — and this was the first time in the program’s history that bicycling and walking projects were eligible for the money.

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Gray Pake Rum Runner 2013

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Year: 2013
Brand: Pake
Model: Rum Runner
Color:Gray
Size:51″
Photo: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200495250604045&set=pb.1240891358.-2207520000.1402598110.&type=3&theater
Stolen in Portland, OR 97211
Stolen:2014-06-12
Stolen From: NE 82nd and Klickitat.
Neighborhood: NE Portland
Owner: Arielle Foldoe
OwnerEmail: afoldoe(A T)gmail.com
Description: It’s a pake rum runner frame – color is gray. Have a straight, sky blue fork. Single speed with Gatorskin tires, yellow housing, partially covered by a black top tube cover that also acts as a tool kit. Yellow oury handles bars that are pretty faded and grease stained. It’s a bike that def stands out, even in portland.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 14-47563
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

Black/gray Trek Soho DLX 8 Belt 2012

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Year: 2012
Brand: Trek
Model: Soho DLX 8 Belt
Color:Black/gray
Size:17.5″
Serial: WTU321C1448H
Stolen in Portland, OR 97209
Stolen:2014-06-01
Stolen From: ENSO apartment complex, NW Marshall and 13th.
Neighborhood: Pearl
Owner: Michael Richardson
OwnerEmail: michael(replace with at sign)mtrichardson.com
Reward: 200
Description: Trek Soho Dlx 8 Belt, Brooks saddle with small ding on the left side.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 14-154411
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

This weekend, ‘Popcorn plazas’ will add tiny parks to the street outside Clinton Street Theater

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Better Block PDX’s temporary plaza on Stark Street last fall.
(Photo J.Maus/BikePortland)

What’s all that empty pavement doing outside one of the coolest intersections in Portland?

A group of locals are celebrating the summer by trying something new for two days at 26th and Clinton.

Better Block PDX, the team of volunteers who created a beautiful PARK(ing) Day lounge on Southwest Stark Street last fall have again lined up business support and gotten city permission to turn underused street space into a public plaza outside the Clinton Street Theater all day Saturday and Sunday, June 14-15.

Here’s what the temporary plazas will look like:

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Black TREK 1.5/58c 2010

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Year: 2010
Brand: TREK
Model: 1.5/58c
Color:Black
Serial: SWTU163C2067F
Photo: https://www.dropbox.com/s/iovq0pv5tlg3wwh/Pasted_Image_6_11_14_12_25_PM.png
Stolen in Portland, OR 97203
Stolen:2014-06-10
Stolen From: It was stolen from my gargae on the 85th block on N Tyler Avenue in St. Johns
Neighborhood: St Johns
Owner: Maher Hawash
OwnerEmail: gmhawash(A T)gmail.com
Description: Black road bike; with clipless pedals; it has a black bike rack on the back.
Police record with: T14006186
Police reference#: T14006186
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike

A north-south lifeline: The 130s Greenway is coming soon

From barflies to neighborhood officials, most east Portlanders seem to agree on the highest-priority biking improvement for east Portland: a few really good neighborhood greenways.

Consensus has benefits. The 130s Greenway is scheduled to be built next fall, and the 100s and 150s greenways are in the works.

130s bikeway annotated

The East Portland Access to Transit project, including the 130s Greenway and sidewalk improvements along Division Street.
(Image courtesy City of Portland. Annotated by BikePortland.)

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