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• Bike Share Series, Part Six: The outlook for bike share in Portland

  Tom Miller(Photo © J. Maus) Welcome to the final installment of our guest article series on bike sharing in Portland. The series is written by Tom Miller, chief of staff for Portland City Commissioner and Mayor-elect Sam Adams. Yesterday, Tom laid out... Posted Nov 26 2008, 04:03 AM by BikePortland.org » Front Page Filed under: Front Page, News, Bike-sharing system, guest article, bike sharing, tom miller

• Bike Share Series, Part Five: Questions to answer if we want to “get it right”

  Tom Miller(Photo © J. Maus) Welcome to Part Five of our six-part, guest article series on bike sharing in Portland. The series is written by Tom Miller, chief of staff for Portland City Commissioner and Mayor-elect Sam Adams. Yesterday, Tom laid out what’s... Posted Nov 25 2008, 03:43 AM by BikePortland.org » Front Page Filed under: Front Page, Bike-sharing system, guest article, bike sharing, tom miller, roger geller

• Bike share in Portland Part Two: Off to Scandinavia

  Tom Miller(Photo © J. Maus) Welcome to Part Two of our six-part, guest article series on bike-sharing in Portland. The series is written by Tom Miller, chief of staff for Portland City Commissioner and Mayor-elect Sam Adams. Yesterday, Tom gave us some... Posted Nov 20 2008, 04:43 AM by BikePortland.org » Front Page Filed under: Front Page, Bike-sharing system, guest article, bike sharing, international news

• Guest article series: Bike share in Portland: A status report

  Tom Miller riding in the 2006 Bridge Pedal.(Photo © J. Maus) Welcome to the first in a six-part series; Bike-share in Portland: A status report. The author of this guest article series is Tom Miller. Miller is the current Chief of Staff for Portland City... Posted Nov 19 2008, 05:38 AM by BikePortland.org » Front Page Filed under: Front Page, News, Bike-sharing system, guest article

• U of U students get free bikes with new ‘Bike Loan Progam’

  Bike Loan Program staff: Dave Villalobos, Briana Orr, and Price Armstrong.(Photos courtesy U of O) The University of Oregon has found something constructive to do with the many bikes that are abandoned and impounded on their Eugene campus each year —... Posted Oct 09 2008, 01:37 PM by BikePortland.org » Front Page Filed under: Front Page, News, Advocacy, Bike-sharing system, eugene

• Bike-sharing at the DNC exceeds expectations

  A Freewheelin’ station in Denver.(Photo: Freewheelin/Flickr) A bike-sharing program that started as an employee perk for Lousville, Kentucky-based Humana Corporation has taken the national stage this week. Humana — a $30 billion a year, 9... Posted Aug 28 2008, 12:05 PM by BikePortland.org » Front Page Filed under: Front Page, News, Politics, Bike-sharing system

• Streetfilms checks out D.C. bike-sharing system: An update on Portland’s plans

  The crew from NYC-based Streetfilms has published a good overview of the recently launced SmartBike DC bike-sharing system. With bike-sharing still in the plans for Portland, it’s worth keeping tabs on how things go in D.C. As for Portland’s... Posted Aug 22 2008, 01:17 PM by BikePortland.org » Front Page Filed under: Front Page, Bike-sharing system

• D.C. tests bike-sharing waters: Thoughts from Portland

  Bikes await customers at Penn Quarter station in Washington D.C.(Photo: afagen/Flickr) After several months of delay following the initial “launch”, Washington D.C. is basking in the glow of becoming the first large U.S. city to offer a bike... Posted Aug 14 2008, 12:46 PM by BikePortland.org » Front Page Filed under: Front Page, News, Bike-sharing system

• Portland won’t give up on bike-share system

  “There are a lot of [bike-sharing] systems out there and we really want to pick the best model.”–Shoshanah Oppenheim, transportation policy aide for Commissioner Adams With the announcement last week that the City of Portland has canceled... Posted Jun 30 2008, 04:12 PM by BikePortland.org » Front Page Filed under: Front Page, News, Bike-sharing system

• Portland cancels search for bike-sharing vendor

  Portland will have to wait for a bike-sharing program like this one in Vienna.Photo: Ethan Jewett The process to select a vendor that would implement a public bike-sharing system in Portland has been canceled. In a letter just released by the City of... Posted Jun 26 2008, 06:13 PM by BikePortland.org » Front Page Filed under: Front Page, News, Bike-sharing system

• Washington wins bike-sharing race; is Portland far behind?

  Washington DC has beat Portland in becoming the first U.S. city with a bike-sharing system. This photo shows a construction site where one of the new SmartBikeDC racks will be located.(Photo: afagen on Flickr) Now that Washington D.C. is getting national... Posted Apr 28 2008, 04:15 PM by BikePortland.org » Front Page Filed under: Front Page, News, Bike-sharing system

• U.S. House exec. will talk bike-sharing on Portland visit

  House CAO Dan Beard(Photo House CAO Office) Dan Beard, the Chief Administrative Officer of the U.S. House of Representatives will be in Portland later this week. Beard is slated to speak about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “Green the Capitol”... Posted Mar 25 2008, 12:09 PM by BikePortland.org » Front Page Filed under: Front Page, News, Bike-sharing system