Panel ponders Portland’s slide from cycling superstardom
What do the bike experts think about our #4 ranking? It’s complicated.
Portland cycling stagnation
2,000 missing homes: Prices soar in bikeable areas as Portland’s rental shortage deepens
New construction in the central city hasn’t come close to relieving one of the country’s harshest rental housing shortages.
Census shows big leaps for biking in a few cities, but Portland inches backward
Is America’s latest bike boom coming to an end? Or is it just moving to different cities?
With biking sidelined at Portland City Hall, BTA strategy shifts to long term
When it comes to local advocacy, the BTA says it’s not just in a long game – it’s still setting up the board.
Something has gone wrong in Portland
This 2014 article was the first to fully address the end of Portland’s leadership as a cycling-friendly city.
Special report: How Portland stopped building neighborhood greenways
If Portland has contributed any innovations of its own to the craft of designing great streets, it’s this two-word idea: neighborhood greenways.
PBOT looks to get back on track with PR moves and new ‘vision’
Dylan Rivera (on the left) is now PBOT’s Communications Manager and a member of the Director’s Team.(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland) Two recent moves by the Portland Bureau of Transportation show that the agency wants to fix its past PR woes, tighten up its communications strategy and set a clear(er) course for the future. On Tuesday, … Read more
Guess who didn’t make list of America’s top 10 protected bikeways?
In the latest sign that Portland’s lead as America’s best cycling city is dwindling, we were completely left out of a list of the year’s top 10 protected bikeways published by People for Bikes yesterday. People for Bikes (formerly known as Bikes Belong) is an industry-funded advocacy group that also runs the Green Lane Project, … Read more
Portland transportation isn’t ‘stagnating’ after all, city director says
Four months after joining the Portland Bureau of Transportation as its director, Leah Treat is walking back an idea she shared in her job interview.
City Auditor’s Community Survey shows Portland’s continued cycling stagnation
Not impressive. The Office of the City Auditor released its 23rd annual Community Survey today and the results reveal yet another sign that the amount of people riding bicycles in Portland has reached a stubborn plateau. The survey asked Portland residents to gauge a number of different city functions, from the quality of tap water … Read more
Census: Portland biking stalls for fifth year while other cities climb
Source: Census American Community Survey. Image by BikePortland. Portland’s hard-won status as “America’s bike capital” hasn’t looked less secure since it claimed the title in 2005. The number of Portlanders who get to work primarily by bike was statistically unchanged in 2012, ticking from 6.3 percent to 6.1 percent of the city’s working population. Across … Read more