Clean Energy Fund sets 6,000 bike goal for e-bike rebate program
Part of a five-year, $20 million transportation decarbonization investment.
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Portland Clean Energy Fund draft plan includes $20 million e-bike rebate program
Cheaper e-bikes could help stem the tide of falling bicycling rates.
Transportation justice advocate Vivian Satterfield is city’s new chief sustainability officer
To have someone like Satterfield in this key role is a very promising bit of news.
City of Portland zoning code proposal for electric vehicle charging leaves out e-bikes
Last week, the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) released a new draft proposal for its Electric Vehicle Ready Code project, which would amend city zoning code to require electric vehicle charging at new multi-unit dwellings. But advocates for electric bikes – who frequently lament being left out of efforts to expand electric vehicle … Read more
Influential Portland Planning Commission seeks three new members
We need great leaders on this commission.
Long-term plan for central-city bikeways moves toward council approval
Some recent updates to a map of future bikeways in Portland’s central city have advocates talking.
Green Loop brainstorm: Five ideas for a park to ring central Portland
A couple of the ideas even feature bikes.
Possible sale of downtown Post Office could be golden opportunity for bikeway
A new built-from-scratch bikeway could run from the Broadway Bridge straight down into the Park Blocks and across Burnside past Director Park, the cultural district and PSU.
Comment of the Week: Legs of steel and the e-bike