SW Portland mini-profile: Bobby Tower and Michael Black, musicians
You basically can’t hear them over the roar of I-5 until you’re within a couple yards of them.
You basically can’t hear them over the roar of I-5 until you’re within a couple yards of them.
Portland zigs; Southwest Portland zags.
A team of Portland State University students is pushing this spot to its next step.
Kudos to the city for having the foresight to snatch this opportunity when it came up.
Of the 81 projects on the map above, 62 would go in at or east of 82nd Avenue.
The route near the west landing of the Sellwood Bridge may end sooner than previously planned.
Glenn and Mark Vanselow of Burlingame Bikes.(Photos: Glenn Vanselow) Burlingame Bikes is Portland’s newest bike shop. The shop was started by the father-son duo of Glenn and Marc Vanselow. Marc (the son) is a professional bike mechanic who got his start in 2001 by working on Alfa Romeos. When the auto shop he used to … Read more
A ‘Marketplace’ set up at the Hillsdale shopping center was a big hit.(Photos: Roger Averbeck) PBOT’s Sunday Parkways event ventured into southwest Portland for the first time this past weekend. According to Roger Averbeck, an active bicycle advocate in the area, about 10,800 people showed up and the event was a big success — although … Read more
Still from on-bike video showing a man talking to a woman he just hit with his car.-Watch it below- A man’s on-bike camera filmed a collision between a woman riding her bike in the crosswalk and someone driving a car. The intersection where the collision occurred — SW Skyline where it crosses Highway 26 and … Read more
My low-budget re-creation of this morning’s collision at SW Bertha and B-H Hwy. (Bike = green, car = blue.) 28-year old Jessie Belter suffered a broken leg when she was struck by someone driving a car as she rode in the bike lane on Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway this morning. According to the Portland Police Bureau, the … Read more
Detail of project plans.(ODOT graphic) The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has just rolled out plans for a project that will improve biking and walking access along SW Kelly Avenue near US 26 and the western end of the Ross Island Bridge. Along with project partners TriMet and the City of Portland, ODOT will make … Read more
After bollards were uprooted — and despite new signs that say “No left turns” — this taxi pulls onto Terwilliger from Condor. This is the same maneuver that resulted in serious injuries to a bicycle rider in August and spurred PBOT into action.(Photo: BikePortland reader)