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This year, enjoy a carfree Peacock Lane

Now Portlanders can roam (or ride) without worry at the annual Peacock Lane holiday lights show. (Photo © J. Maus) Each year, for the last two weeks of December, residents of the little-traveled Southeast Portland street, Peacock Lane, deck out their houses with elaborate holiday light displays...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-19-2008
“This is just pathetic”; a bereaved mom says enough is enough

Last night I had one of those comments that reminds me why I’ve devoted so much of my life to this site. It came from “Nick’s mom”. Nick is Nick Moreno, a 17-year-old boy who died in the ICU on October 29th, one day after he was struck by a car while trying to cross [...]

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-07-2008
New bike shop on SE 50th and Division

The Bike Exchange A new bike shop called The Bike Exchange has opened its doors on SE 50th and Division. Owner Tom Daly dropped a line the other day with the news. He says they opened just a few weeks ago and they’re already busy doing tune-ups and “all sorts of repairs and [...]

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-04-2008
Bureau of Planning: We need more time to look at 7 Corners

The Bureau of Planning has canceled a community workshop that would have began a discussion about a preferred strategy to tackle a re-design of the 7 Corners intersection (where SE Division, Ladd, 20th, and 21st streets converge). One of the design concepts.(Graphic: Bureau of Planning) I shared the...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-29-2008
The ‘Tour de Ladd’; Portland’s first bike-a-thon

Eager to ride.-Watch video below- (Photos © J. Maus) This morning, despite a steady stream of rain, hundreds of Abernethy Elementary School kids took part in a new spin on the the traditional walk-a-thon fundraiser; they did a bike-a-thon. Dubbed the Tour de Ladd, organizers of the event closed a loop...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-03-2008
KATU: Police search for hit-and-run suspect

Click for map KATU-TV is reporting that a man riding a bicycle was hit on SE 39th Ave. just north of Powell Blvd. (map) in Southeast Portland at around 2:45 am this morning. The hit-and-run incident left the man with non life-threatening injuries but witnesses say he was “pretty banged up”...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-30-2008
PDOT begins process to fix “confusing” and “challenging” 7 Corners intersection

The City of Portland will unveil new design ideas for the 7 Corners intersection at a workshop next month. The yellow lines show a popular bike route. Calling it a “confusing and challenging place to navigate for everyone,” the City of Portland’s Bureau of Planning and the Office of...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-17-2008
New bike lanes make key connection in Outer Southeast

Freshly installed bike lanes on SE 162nd.(Photo by Jeff Smith/PDOT) The City of Portland Office of Transportation (PDOT) has completed the installation of 1.6 miles of bike lanes in Outer Southeast Portland. The new lanes are on SE 162nd Avenue from Powell to Stark and they create a continuous route...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-20-2008
Sunflowers will soon bloom on Belmont bike corrals

Greg Raisman wants to make the bike corrals on SE Belmont a bit more pleasing to the eye.(Photos © J. Maus) By the end of this summer, sculpted sunflowers will adorn the on-street bike parking (PDOT calls them “bike corrals”) on Belmont Street. The project is community-wide effort being spearheaded...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-27-2008
Minivan rolls into local bike shop; a tragedy averted

A minivan rolled into a bench outsideCitybikes on Saturday.(Photos: Spencer Boomhower) Citybikes, a popular local bike shop with two locations in Southeast Portland, experienced a close call at their store on SE 8th and Ankeny on Saturday. In what must have been a surreal experience, two men in the path...

Posted to BikePortland.org (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-19-2008

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