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Year: 2007
Brand: Cannondale
Model: T2000
Color:grey
Stolen in Portland, OR 97232
Stolen:2013-10-14
Stolen From: Outside liquor store at 9th and Broadway
Neighborhood: inner NE/Broadway
Owner: Marcus Ghiringhelli
OwnerEmail: mghiring@gmail.com
Description: Slate grey large-tube frame with map printed on downtube. Dark green cranks, pink and black seat.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: T13010531
Another person died early this morning while traveling on SW Barbur Blvd.
According to the Portland Police, a 27-year-old man was driving at a “very high rate of speed” when he lost control of his car (a Prius), crossed the centerline, demolished a bus shelter on the opposite sidewalk, hit a building, then smashed into a car parked in a lot. (More coverage from KGW and KATU).
This has become a depressingly regular occurrence on Barbur, a road that the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) insists on managing like a freeway, even though it’s a neighborhood main street for many business owners and residents who walk, bike, and drive on it every day.
— Back in August, 20-year-old Henry Schmidt was seriously injured after a woman hit him while he walked on the shoulder of Barbur Blvd.
— In May of this year, just a mile or so north of this morning’s fatality, 45-year-old Lance Marcus died after losing control of his car. He too was traveling at a “high rate of speed.”
— In October 2011, 25-year-old Nisha Rana died in a single-vehicle traffic crash just a few blocks away from the Marcus fatality. Police again said she lost control of her car after driving “at a very high rate of speed.”
— And who can forget December 2010 when Angela Burke was hit and killed while walking her bike across Barbur by a young man who was, you guessed it, driving way too fast.
Taking a page from job-training nonprofits like Janus Youth and Goodwill Industries, Portland’s Community Cycling Center is preparing to create a new enterprise that supports its mission of making bikes more accessible.
It’s considering a fee-for-service job training operation that would give underprivileged Portlanders a ladder into Portland’s rapidly expanding universe of bike mechanics, builders and component manufacturers.
“The bicycle industry is not a diversified industry, and we believe that it should be,” said Anne Lee, operations director for the 19-year-old nonprofit. “We’re trying to create access in a new way. … It’s not just access to being able to ride a bicycle, but it’s access to the bicycle industry and the jobs that are there.”
Year: 1997
Brand: Gary Fisher
Model: Paragon (1997)
Color:Gunmetal Gray
Size:XL
Photo: http://www.bikepedia.com/quickbike/ImageZoom.aspx?itemid=69483&if=2007,%20Paragon.jpg
Stolen in Portland, OR 97204
Stolen:2013-10-15
Stolen From: Garage at SE Holly St
Neighborhood: Ladd’s addition
Owner: Patrick Maloney
OwnerEmail: pemaloney(at sign)yahoo.com
Description: Black hard front fork (replaced shock in picture)
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: T13010519
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Southeast Portland resident Tony Tapay takes the safety and livability of his neighborhood streets seriously. His citizen activism usual takes the form of calls and emails to the Bureau of Transportation requesting speeding enforcement. But there’s one issue he’s gotten so frustrated about due to a lack of action and response from both the violators (an ice cream truck company) and the City, that he recently took the matter into his own hands.
Year: 2006
Brand: Fuji
Model: Silhouette
Color:Gray
Size:?
Serial: if5e14948
Stolen in Portland, OR 97220
Stolen:2013-07-26
Stolen From: Southbound green line Max train somewhere between the 82nd Ave. station and the Clackamas Town Center station.
Neighborhood: NE/SE Portland
Owner: Meghan Romney
OwnerEmail: meghanromney(A T)gmail.com
Reward: yes
Description: Gray Fuji Silhouette commuter bike with rear rack, fenders, and 2 water bottle cages.
Police record with: Portland PD
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Year: 2013
Brand: Fuji
Model: Absolute 1.3
Color:maroon
Size:18″?
Serial: SFJ018IC0498J
Stolen in Portland, OR 97213
Stolen:2013-10-14
Stolen From: Hollywood transit center (NE Halsey and 42nd)
Neighborhood: Hollywood
Owner: Meghan Romney
OwnerEmail: meghanromney(AT)gmail.com
Reward: yes
Description: Dark red Fuji Absolute 1.3 commuter bike with rear rack, fenders, and water bottle cage.
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: no case # yet
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
The Portland Bureau of Transportation is touting the success of their road diet and protected bike lane project on NE Multnomah Street in the Lloyd District. On their website today, PBOT announced results of a travel survey and bike count by the Lloyd District Transportation Management Association that shows significant increases in bike use compared to last year. The reason? A major design update on Multnomah that transformed the street from a 1970s-style, auto-dominated thoroughfare to a more modern cross-section that includes dedicated space for cycling.
Here’s more from PBOT:
Year: 2010
Brand: Bianchi
Model: Camaleonte 2
Color:gray
Size:medium
Stolen in Portland, OR 97202
Stolen:2013-10-14
Stolen From: SE 21st and Powell Blvd
Neighborhood: Southeast
Owner: Lindsay Morris
OwnerEmail: lmorris187(A T)gmail.com
Description: Gray bike with light blue accents, planet bike light on front
Police record with: Portland PD
This registrant does not have proof of ownership of this bike
A recently minted Portlander is matching the fun, informal vibe of a local fashion show with the sense of style that surrounds two-wheeled travel.
Not the style of the clothes the person riding the bike is wearing. The style of the bicycle itself.
“I don’t give a s— what you wear when you ride your bike,” said Jacob Goddard, 35, organizer of the inaugural Portland Bike Show. “I like the people who don’t wash their bike because they want to show off the dirt they got on it riding outside of Hood River.”
Adonia Lugo, who received a doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of California, Irvine who spent years as a community activist in Los Angeles, will speak at the Bureau of Transportation’s monthly “Brown Bag” discussion series this Thursday. Lugo earned her undergraduate degree from Reed College in Portland but returned to town only recently after stints in Los Angeles and Seattle.
In recent years, Lugo has emerged as a respected voice among transportation advocates due to her experiences and perspectives on how gender and race figure into bicycling policies, projects and priorities. During her time in Los Angeles, Lugo co-founded CicLAvia (that city’s version of Sunday Parkways) and City of Lights/Ciudad de Luces, a volunteer effort to provide bike lights and safe cycling information to Spanish-speaking immigrants, that has since become a stand-alone non-profit named Multicultural Communities for Mobility.
Here’s the global bike news that caught our eyes this week:
Unsafe stamps: The U.S. Postal Service killed a set of stamps depicting kids enjoying physical activity because another federal group said some of the activities might be unsafe. For example: “a youngster is doing a headstand without a helmet.”
Bike sculplture: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei unveils a massive installation in Toronto.
Crowdsourced route builder: Bike-tracking company Strava is using its users’ route data to identify popular bike routes.
Anti-texting cop: After reading that 10 Americans die every day from traffic crashes linked to cell use, a Georgia cop took it on himself to target it. He expects to write 1,000 tickets this year for texting while driving.