The future of Portland housing depends on biking, and vice versa
There’s no easy way out. But we must start digging.
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After slapping car, rider gets unexpected chat with Portland police officer
“It’s not your job to scare people to not use their cell phone.”
Why Jolene Friedow only got a traffic ticket in the collision that killed Mark Angeles
A traffic citation when someone dies is not easy to swallow.
Here’s what happened when Mayor Hales biked to work for the first time
His first bike commute since becoming mayor.
More biking = better driving. So why isn’t this said more often?
One passage has a twinge of unfamiliarity in Portland’s transportation conversation these days.
The Oregon Outback was the hardest — and best — ride I’ve ever done
One year ago I rode up central Oregon’s spine and I still get chills thinking about it.
Hawthorne Bridge bike trips up just 0.4% in 2014
Over 1.7 million trips in 2014. (Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland) As of yesterday, there were 1,712,172 bicycle trips across Portland’s Hawthorne Bridge in 2014. That’s an impressive number — but it represents just a paltry 0.4 percent increase over last year’s total.
Truck driver does ‘rolling coal’ on riders, and one of them is a bike cop
Purposely spewing diesel exhaust fumes from your truck onto bike riders is all fun and games, until you unknowingly do it to an off-duty cop.
The Oregonian Editorial Board on Portland’s “risky bike share venture”
Surprise, surprise; The Oregonian Editorial Board is already against Portland Bike Share.
The good, the bad, and the ugly on the Oregon Coast Bike Route
Sunrise in Newport.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Last week I joined about 50 other folks for a ride down the Oregon Coast Bike Route. In six days of pedaling, we covered about 370 miles — most of it along the shoulder of Highway 101. This route isn’t just one of the premier cycle touring routes in … Read more
Portland’s coffee bike arms race (and other cargo bike news)
Peer into Portland’s flourishing cargo bike scene just over a decade ago.
Five year prison sentence handed down in hit and run that killed Dustin Finney
Go inside the courtroom as Finney’s grieving mother stared down the man who hit her son.