Disability rights advocate visits Eagle Creek stairs to highlight state trail impediment
What’s the price we pay for inaccessible trails?
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Ditch your car for ‘Week Without Driving’, World Carfree Day
In a society where driving everywhere is the norm, people who don’t drive very often – or at all – are seen as strange or radical. But what’s truly radical is not even trying to do something else. Disability Rights Washington (DRW) is promoting a statewide ‘Week Without Driving’ challenge starting Monday, and many of … Read more
Q & A with Cassie Wilson, a disabled Portlander and new bike rider
Note: This post is part of a paid promotional partnership between BikePortland and BIKETOWN, operated by Lyft. Cassie Wilson is a bright spot in Portland’s vast transportation advocacy scene. She’s part of a new guard of activists with an energy for making change that can only be rivaled by her anxiety of making none. Much … Read more
TriMet says denial of tricycle as mobility device is supported by federal regulations
They don’t fit the definition of a wheelchair.
Disability rights activists to TriMet: Let us take trikes on MAX
A trike as a personal mobility device.
Chris Billman is the only Oregonian with a disabled parking decal for his bicycle
One man’s activism led to a DMV breakthrough.
This Portland nonprofit provides special tricycles for people with special needs
Think of them like wheelchairs you can pedal.
Ian Mackay is on a wheelchair tour to promote better paths and trails
It’s not just a bike path, it’s a lifeline for people in wheelchairs.