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.
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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.
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.
KATU investigates ‘Bike Path to Nowhere’ – UPDATED
Screen grab from KATU TV newscast.-Watch video below- On their 11 o’clock newscast last night, KATU-TV (ABC in Portland) aired a special ‘On Your Side’ investigation titled, Bike Path to Nowhere. The segment focused on the buffered bike lanes that were installed on SE Holgate back in August. To give you a sense of the … Read more
Ray LaHood rocks Summit crowd with tabletop speech
US DOT Secretary Ray LaHood stands atop a table to address Summit attendees at the Congressional Reception held in a Senate ballroom on Capitol Hill.(Photos © J. Maus)
Judge: Woman hit in unpainted bike lane is not protected by law
A Portland judge has ruled that when bike lane striping vanishes, like in the intersection of SE 10th and Hawthorne, so does a rider’s legal protection. When Portlander Rob Daray witnessed a right-hook collision on his commute home last summer he thought it was obvious who was at fault. So did the police officer who … Read more
The SK Northwest saga is over: Property owner gives up on trail fight
They fought it tooth and nail, but in the end the path prevailed.
An exciting vision for bikes at ‘Gateway Green’
A developer and parks advocate think a bike park will help revitalize the Gateway area.
When failure to yield, isn’t
Why were the truck drivers not given a citation for failure to yield to a bicycle in a bike lane?