“It just makes too much sense,” Chasse, 58, said in an interview at McMenamins Mall 205. “I mean, Yeah, light rail is great. And bus service is absolutely critical. But I mean, I quit driving.”
Given this week’s stories about land-use and parking, I figured it was a good time to dust off an interview I did with Enrique Penalosa, a noted livable streets advocate who’s now running for president of Colombia.
PBOT Director Leah Treat last summer.(Photo J. Maus/BikePortland) Nine months into her position as the Director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation, Leah Treat appears to be finally ready to spread her wings. We’ve noted here at BikePortland that for someone in charge of one of America’s marquee transportation systems, and someone who came to … Read more
For someone whose longest bike trip ever is 40 miles to Sauvie Island and back, a 1,200-mile, five-week mountain bike trek through Eastern Oregon will be, well, a leap.
But about 20 times each year for the last decade, Andrew Reed has sat down with Adobe Illustrator to put together River City Bicycles’ black and white quarter-page ad for page 3 of Willamette Week.
When Jeffrey Cramer bought the bike for $10 last Friday night, he wasn’t planning to return it to anyone. He just needed a way to get home, because someone had stolen his own bike a week before.
By 2020, Brandon Rhodes predicts and hopes, Lents will finally have a grocery store. For now, it’s got him and his bike trailer.
Shelley Oylear, the only public employee in Washington County with the word bicycle in her job title, is the 36-year-old queen of having feet in two worlds.
You wouldn’t think anybody would spend $750 on a hand-built box, he said. But people like what they like.
Two months before his 80th birthday, volunteer architect Jim Howell has designed his first transportation concept that features bikes.
OBRA Executive Director Kenji Sugahara in the office of U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley in March 2012.(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland) Welcome to the fourth installment in our series audio interviews with local cyclocross personalities. We’ve partnered with the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association (OBRA) to broadcast these interviews in advance of their 2013 Cyclocross Championship event coming … Read more
Tina Brubaker on the run-up at Alpenrose during the 2011 Cross Crusade.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)