Hubris and icy streets: a cautionary tale
I’m not particularly worried about traveling in cold and icy weather. But that didn’t stop me from completely wiping out on black ice while biking the other day.
Safety
Guest Article: Despite bike lane, Vancouver Ave is designed for cars. Our children deserve better
It’s unacceptable these blocks are designed for car throughput above all else.
Legislator’s ODOT donation bill shows how desperate people are for safer roads
Please make the deaths and injuries stop. Just tell us where to send the checks!
Portland steps up safety resolve following a deadly December on Division
Reactions were swift and strong after two people died on Division last month.
City of Portland will deploy ‘Be Seen Be Safe’ street teams as dark season begins
Check your headlights, slow down, wear brighter colors.
Portland area teenagers to learn safe driving skills at Ford-sponsored event
If they have to drive they might as well learn how to do it.
Portland ‘Transformation’ bureau unveils a new trick: ’20 is Plenty’ signs
The signs look legal, but aren’t.
At City Hall rally, demonstrators demand action for safer streets
“As I sit here asking you to make safe routes a priority, I am not a special interest.”
What makes people stop at red lights? Other people, study finds
It might be peer pressure. It might be geometry.
For less than $500,000, 3 Portland road diets are preventing 37 crashes every year
One of the least-understood tricks in traffic engineering has a big payoff.
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?
94% of bike riders wait at red lights, study finds
A new study suggests that speeding in a car on local streets is at least six times more common than running a red light on a bike.
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