A lost scrap of NW Portland history: How a fortune cookie helped save Thurman Street
Thurman Street was supposed to be long gone by now, but a stroke of luck stopped ODOT’s plans.
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Unearthed: 1975 City of Portland “From here to there by bicycle” map
Hop on your Schwinn ten-speed!
Guest post: Advocate and bike scene veteran Carl Larson says goodbye
Carl is the city’s all-around bike culture Renaissance Man.
The secret history of Portland’s weirdest neighborhood
The district that might have been can tell us a lot about the districts we want to build today.
Why are these 11 buildings illegal in most of Portland?
They’re cheaper to build, less controversial, more energy-efficient and more family-friendly. So why do we ban them?
In 1934, The Oregonian’s ‘Let’s Quit Killing’ campaign declared a war on traffic deaths
The nationally-known campaign was strikingly similar to today’s Vision Zero.
As Clinton Street’s bikeway turns 30, locals plan a celebration
The Clinton Street bikeway is one thing for sure: beloved.
130 years of Portland’s transportation history in one chart
When you step back far enough, the history of transportation starts to look less like a river and more like a set of waves.
From the Portland city archives: A tall bike on Union Avenue in 1980
Tall bikes look great in sepia, too.
Sam Oakland, leader of the ‘Shift of the 1970s,’ dies at 80
Sam Oakland, an English professor, poet and author who rode his bicycle to work at what was then Portland State College, started rallying bicycle riders to attend City Hall hearings in the late 1960s.
From The Oregonian, Jan. 1, 1895: ‘Reign of the wheel’
119 years later, this short case for the merits of biking still feels like the perfect way to kick off a year of progress.
What caused Portland’s biking boom?
Before 2002, this was just another outdoorsy city on the West Coast; after 2008, it’s been just one more mid-size metro area with an increasingly lively central city. But something strange and wonderful happened in between.