Note: I'm currently on a family trip and not working normal hours. Email and message responses will be delayed and story and posting volumes here and on our social media accounts will not be at their usual levels until I return to Portland September 4th. Thanks for your patience and understanding. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
This annual event (originally started in 2006 as the Oregon Bicycle Tourism Summit) brings together policymakers, advocates and citizen activists to learn, network, and actively lobby the state legislature to improve bicycling, walking and public transit.
The Oregon Active Transportation Summit moves to a new venue this year. The Street Trust’s annual gathering of planning professionals, agency staffersm thinkers and activists takes place at the Oregon Convention Center. The three-day event will have an explicit focus on climate action and transportation justice and will be headlined by Emma Marris, an environmental … Read more
“How can you call yourself a bike-friendly town?”
Three days of networking and events.
The annual event is expected to draw hundreds of advocates, professional staff, elected officials, and more.
A bit of humility injected into the event.
Seattle’s housing breakthrough may have lessons for keeping bikeable parts of Portland affordable.
Who’s here and what are they up to?
The summit kicked off with talk of reforming government, freight myths, and street safety.
Once a year, Portland’s biking, walking, transit and public-space wonks gather.
The group of four architects writes, composes and sings about the merits of biking, walking and riding mass transit.
The city’s bicycle coordinator described inner SE and NW as “a real problem area” for neighborhood greenways.
“The best way to be a successful bike advocate is to be a successful Vision Zero advocate.”
Comment of the Week: Gratitude for N/NE Broadway project