The SW Portland schools with the most walking and biking
If you want a foot-friendly family neighborhood in Southwest, it’s hard to beat Hillsdale or Hayhurst.
safe routes to school
As Congress drops Safe Routes to School, advocates ask Metro to step in
A Safe Routes to School ride in Portland in 2010. A new BTA campaign suggests tapping federal funding allocated to the Metro regional government to offer the program in suburban schools, too.(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland) Second in a week-long series about the BTA’s five new advocacy campaigns. Over the last two years, people trying to reverse the … Read more
A six-point plan to make Portland a better place to grow up
I moved to Portland because it would be the place in the US with the greatest opportunity to bicycle calmly, safely, and in good company. We can keep leading the way. Here’s how.
As a low-car generation rises, youth organizers step up transportation activism
Few Portlanders rely more on low-car transportation than teens. Some are getting more sophisticated in advocating for better public transit, biking and walking.
New ‘Bikeology’ curriculum guides spell out bike skills for grades 6-12
When the basics of biking are often essentially passed on as folk wisdom from one individual to another, is there any wonder so many of us fail to pick up the best practices?
Three-year grant could fund better biking to Portland middle schools
Portland’s Safe Routes to School program is moving up the age ladder.
Portland’s best (and worst) elementary schools for biking and walking
Portland seems to be edging toward its transportation goal for elementary schoolers: getting as many of them to walk or bike to school as the average American kid did in 1969.
PBOT director co-stars in Safe Routes Streetfilm
The best cure for gloominess about the progress of active transportation in Portland is Safe Routes to School.
A Walk and Bike to School Day photo roundup
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) This morning Portlanders from every corner of the city made an extra special effort to walk and bike to school. According to PBOT, 65 schools participated in the annual Walk and Bike to School Day. We asked our friends on Twitter to share photos of their rides to school so we … Read more
65 schools across Portland set for ‘Walk and Bike to School Day’
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Tomorrow morning over 60 schools throughout Portland will make an extra effort to walk and bike school as part of International Walk + Bike to School Day. The event helps kick off the City of Portland’s annual Safe Routes to School program which has seen impressive growth since its start just … Read more
Driving dangerously: Police issue over 1,100 citations in back-to-school mission
School’s back in session and for some folks the reminder came in the form of a traffic citation.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) During a two-week period that coincided with the start of the school year, the Portland Police Bureau issued well over 1,100 citations to people who violated traffic laws in school zones. According to PPB … Read more
Portlanders bike back to school (photos)
Trillium Charter School on North Interstate.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Schools in Portland are back in session as of yesterday, and that means the biking to school season is upon us once again. (That, combined with the Bike Commute Challenge and the all the regular Portland bike traffic, often makes September feel like the busiest biking … Read more