Watch out bike-friendly cities, Steve Clark is coming for you
The League’s Steve Clark is on a mission to “ground-truth” bike friendly cities and he might be coming to your town next.
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Minneapolis is a very nice city for biking but it is definitely no Portland
Is Minneapolis a better biking city than Portland? Don’t be silly.
Oregon ranked 5th most bike-friendly state by the League
The League of American Bicyclists says Oregon is the fifth most bike-friendly state in the nation.
Biking matters most to lowest-income local households, new data shows
In the Portland area, the lower your household’s income, the more likely you are to use a bike to get to work.
4 things U.S. college towns could teach planners about biking
It’s time for urban planners to stop ignoring how well college towns work and start learning from them.
Six lessons for Portland from the League’s new ‘Women Bike’ report
Common, but not quite common enough.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Even in Portland, people who really ought to know better (links to FB) still claim now and then that biking is a thing for young dudes. Still, in a town where only 31 percent of people on bikes tend to be female (it’s about 25 percent … Read more
Oregon moves up to third in new Bike-Friendly State rankings
Bike rack in Sisters, Oregon.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) The League of American Bicyclists released their annual Bicycle Friendly States rankings today. Oregon came in third place, which is up from fifth place in 2012 and represents a significant improvement over our eighth place ranking in 2011. The top state in the 2013 rankings is our … Read more
Inspired by Copenhagen, League reveals more about ‘Diamond’ program
Marching orders from the League. Portland is one of just three cities in the U.S. to have achieved a Platinum level designation for bike-friendliness from the League of American Bicyclists. Platinum used to be the highest level a city could earn; but now there’s Diamond and the League just announced details on what it will … Read more
The national security argument for Safe Routes to School
More cycling = more soldiers.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland In case you haven’t heard, there’s a battle royale going on in the U.S. Congress over the transportation bill right now. Members of the House and Senate are in negotiations to come up with some sort of agreement about how to actually pass a bill, instead of … Read more
ODOT says League’s state rankings leave out key spending figures
“When we went back to figure out how the League got their low numbers, we discovered that they use a definition that is very narrow and doesn’t capture all funding.”— Travis Brouwer, ODOT federal affairs Oregon’s 8th place “Bike Friendly State” ranking by the League of American Bicyclists raised a lot of eyebrows around here. … Read more
Oregon slips to 8th in ‘Bike Friendly States’ rankings
Oregon State Parks’ Scenic Bikeway Program wasn’t considered in the rankings.(Photo © J. Maus) New ‘Bicycle Friendly State’ rankings by the League of American Bicyclists put Oregon in 8th place, a loss of three places since last year and the first time since the rankings began in 2008 that Oregon has not made the top … Read more
Two more Portlanders will add their voices to League of American Bicyclists Board
Alison Hill Graves(Photo © J. Maus) Steve Durrant(Photo: Alta Planning)