Comment of the week: A TriMet bus driver on letting bikes pass first
What’s it like to drive a bus in a city full of bikes?
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Bike-to-transit mobile trip planner launches in Portland
A free app that uses the open-source software behind ride.trimet.org is bringing multimodal trip planning to Portland iPhones.
After alleged bike-bus collision, TriMet driver tells man ‘You’re fine’ and drives off
A man claims that a TriMet driver blew him off after a bus pulled in front of him while he was riding his bike.
Nike bike share clogs bike parking at Beaverton Creek station
That main rack has been totally consumed, with evenings so bad that extra orange Nike bikes are either locked to the parking signs or just floating near the rack with front wheel u-locked to the frame.
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.
The Orange Line might secretly be Portland’s biggest bike project ever
Even if you don’t count the full $135 million bridge, the light-rail project will also include more than $40 million in bicycling and walking facilities on nearby streets.
Anti-transit vote in Tigard throws wrench in southwest corridor bike plans
Tigard voters just threw a wrench in a plan to improve biking in the suburbs southwest of Portland.
TriMet re-tests ‘Talking buses’ to warn other road users about turns
Four years after one of its bus drivers fatally collided with two people in a downtown Portland crosswalk, TriMet is testing a few devices that use sounds and lights to show when a bus is turning.
TriMet to build fewer bike lockers and more covered bike racks at new transit stops
Portland’s regional transit agency is installing far fewer $50-a-year bike lockers than it used to and adding more short-term parking near stops as it rethinks the ways people in cities tend to combine bikes and public transit.
When TriMet asked for bridge names, bike-inspired ideas rolled in
Here’s a look at a few of them.
TriMet unveils new bridge name finalists: What do you think?
TriMet has narrowed down 9,500 name ideas for the new Portland-Milwaukie span to just four finalists.
The Friday Profile: Portland’s idea man has a big plan for eastside biking
Two months before his 80th birthday, volunteer architect Jim Howell has designed his first transportation concept that features bikes.