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  • Guest Article: Two rights don’t make a right

    Jessica Roberts(Photo © J. Maus) This article was written by Jessica Roberts. Jessica is the former metro area advocate for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance and she is now a planner with Alta Planning and Design, one of the nation’s premier bike and pedestrian planning firms. Jessica previously...
    Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008

  • Thoughts on Amanda Fritz, our newest City Commissioner

    Amanda Fritz(Photo © J. Maus) With 70% of the vote, Amanda Fritz, a neighborhood activist and Registered Nurse, has been elected to Portland City Council. Ms. Fritz, who lost a bid for Commissioner in 2006, won a decisive victory over Charles Lewis and she is the first non-incumbent to win a council...
    Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008

  • One Aerial Tram or America’s best bike network?

    The Portland Aerial Tram — $57 million…(Photo: Dat Nguyen) As we move into the 2009 legislative session, and with an update to our Bicycle Master Plan finally on the horizon, I’ll be covering the future of bikeway funding a lot in the weeks and months to come. One of the over-arching...
    Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-31-2008

  • A “National Mobility Project” and infrastructure investment as antidote

    David Brooks Widely-read New York Times op-ed columnist and regular NewsHour pundit David Brooks penned a column today that urged our government and leaders to put infrastructure projects on the fast-track. Calling it a “National Mobility Project”, Brooks thinks that the wisest way for government...
    Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-31-2008

  • Inspiration from Seoul: An ambitious plan to increase biking

    Bike elevators for bridges are just one way Seoul, South Korea hopesto reach 10% bike mode share by 2020.(Graphic: Chosun Ilbo) Seoul, South Korea, a city with just 1.6% of their population regularly using bikes (Portland is at 6% by comparison) has set an aggressive plan to bump that up to 10% by 2020...
    Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-23-2008

  • Cars are the new smoking: America’s other deadly habit

    Stop sign in Vancouver BC (click forlarger version so you can read the fine print).(Photo © J. Maus) Close readers of this site might recall that on several occasions I’ve written that, “cars are the new smoking.” It’s something that came from my continued bewilderment that, while...
    Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-22-2008

  • The Great Bike Light Problem

    Elly Blue [This article was written by contributor Elly Blue. You can read more from Ms. Blue here.] “Do not ride at night,” urges the Huffy Bicycle Company website. “Have someone pick you up if you’re out after dark or walk your bike home.” This attitude is fortunately...
    Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-21-2008

  • The bike box lifestyle

    The bike box; a symbol of a family un-friendly lifestyle?(Photo © J. Maus) In a stack of old notes on my desk, I came across a passage from an Oregonian article published a few months ago that I’ve been wanting to share. The story, Our diversity myth: Portlanders live in a like-minded bubble, making...
    Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-17-2008

  • Adams calls for “newfound maturity” in bike community

    Commissioner Adams at the opening ceremony yesterday.(Photo © J. Maus) In a blog post published yesterday, City Commissioner and Mayor-elect Sam Adams wrote that with each new innovation the city rolls out for bicyclists, “our bicycle community assumes more responsibility as well”. “As...
    Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-17-2008

  • BTA releases results of Bike Commute Challenge

    Tonight in southeast Portland, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) will toast another successful Bike Commute Challenge. The event, which has been held every September since 1995, is a friendly competition between workplaces to see who bike to work more. All participants log their commutes online...
    Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2008
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