Transit riders share stories at community-building event ahead of ‘Week Without Driving’
It was an opportunity for non-drivers to have their voices heard.
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Disability rights advocate visits Eagle Creek stairs to highlight state trail impediment
What’s the price we pay for inaccessible trails?
Profile: Portland’s ‘Global Nomad’ shares high and lows of adventurous life
An injury left him paralyzed 26 hears ago, but Portlander and PBOT staffer Tom Haig didn’t stop adventuring.
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.