55 years ago, 1,200 Portlanders joined bike ride to demand carfree space
The ride was the largest bike advocacy ride Portland had ever seen.
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New sculpture in downtown Portland will celebrate Oregon’s ‘Bike Bill’
A tribute to mark 50 years of cycling advocacy.
Sam Oakland, leader of the ‘Shift of the 1970s,’ dies at 80
Sam Oakland, an English professor, poet and author who rode his bicycle to work at what was then Portland State College, started rallying bicycle riders to attend City Hall hearings in the late 1960s.