Opinion: NW Examiner continues to mislead Portlanders about cycling in Forest Park
The article is very misleading, and unfortunately it’s just the latest example of an ongoing smear campaign.
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In case you read about us in the NW Examiner this month…
A misrepresentation of a misunderstanding.
NW Examiner: Everett bike lanes part of ‘campaign against auto-orientation’
Frank Warrens is not happy about the new bike lanes. A cover story in this month’s NW Examiner is stoking an old but unfortunately familiar meme: the “war on cars.” In Driving out Cars, Allan Classen, the publisher and editor of the free neighborhood newspaper, focuses on how new buffered bike lanes have impacted people … Read more
NW Examiner highlights “illegal cycling” in Forest Park
Cover of NW Examiner April issue. The NW Examiner, a free monthly newspaper with a circulation of 30,000 homes and businesses in various neighborhoods of northwest Portland, has made mountain biking in Forest Park it’s cover story for the second time in three months. In the April edition (PDF only), editor and publisher Allan Classen … Read more
Forest Park update: Wildlife report, new Parks Director chimes in, media goes crazy
Bikes vs. Nature! Run for your lives! Front page of February 2013 NW Examiner newspaper. The debate about bike access in Forest Park has heated up once again. Last time we checked in on the issue we reported on a positive statement from City Commissioner Nick Fish. Then in December, Portland Parks & Recreation completed … Read more
Editorial: NW Examiner publisher blasts “bicycle zealots”
Allan Classen, founder, editor and publisher of the NW Examiner, has leveled serious criticisms at what he calls “members of the Portland Bicycle Church” in his June issue (PDF here). Several readers have sent me his monthly Editor’s Turn column titled, When the saints go riding on, which refers to bikes as “not merely a … Read more