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Ryan Hashagen chats with a man working on the Cully Boulevard reconstruction project (site of city’s first cycle track).(Photos: Steve Bozzone/Intersection 911) On Friday afternoon, as city road crews labored under the hot sun on the NE Cully cycle track project, they got an unexpected surprise. A group of people on bikes and tricycles pulled [...]

Have you heard? Bikestravaganza is coming to Portland this Friday, September 10th! Bikestravaganza is the brainchild of former BikePortland Managing Editor Elly Blue and local filmmaker and Microcosm Publishing founder Joe Biel. They’ve been on a whirlwind trip, visiting 10 states in 30 days, and they’re bringing it all together in Portland on Friday night. [...]

The Oregonian’s John Canzano is sad that Portland’s Triple A baseball team (the Beavers) played their final home game on Sunday; but instead of using his column to reminisce about innings past, he decided to take a few swings at bike lanes. What do our bikeways have to do with baseball? Nothing. But that doesn’t [...]

New faces nominated for BTA board*: Martina Fahrner Randy Miller Rick Potestio Susan Remmers Cecil Reniche-Smith Kenji Sugahara David Forman David Kottkamp *View full list of nominees and ballot statements below. The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) has unveiled their slate of board nominees. With eight new faces up for election and six current members up [...]

Paul and “Buttercup”.(Photo: BikeFree.org) [via KOIN-TV] Paul Lebelle and Adam Burkowske arrived in Portland on Saturday afternoon after biking over 3,000 miles on their “Bike Free” charity ride. The duo are on a mission to provide bicycles to children of people in the military. Unfortunately their plans are on hold because Paul’s Cannondale touring bike [...]

The morning commute on N. Vancouver, just before Weidler. Photo taken on Wednesday, 9/1.(Photos © J. Maus) With the Broadway Bridge re-opening to bike traffic next week, I thought it’d be fun to snap some photos of the increase in bike traffic on N. Vancouver Avenue that’s resulted from the detour. It’s been interesting to [...]

This is how Steve Bozzone envisions NE Ainsworth St. The Ask BikePortland question we shared on Wednesday has sparked exciting ideas and a spirited discussion about NE Ainsworth Street. “I live directly on Ainsworth and the day I started cycling was the day I started parking my car on a side street… As a resident [...]

Mr. Sadowsky is settling in.(Photo © J. Maus) The BTA’s new executive director Rob Sadowsky has been at the helm for about two months now. Between getting to know a new city and state (he moved here with his family from Chicago), setting the BTA’s course for the future, and trying to build an effective [...]

Happy Birthday cycle track!(Photos © J. Maus) When we got our first look at the cycle track on SW Broadway one year ago this week, it was an exciting time. Mayor Adams had fulfilled one of his “100 day” promises and — after talking about it for nearly four years — we finally had our [...]

What happened? (Photo: Bill Jackson) Richard Krebs, the man who was involved in a collision with a TriMet bus on SW Morrison and 6th on August 12th, has come forward with his side of the story. He refutes several important parts of TriMet’s official statement and says he was under medication from his injuries when [...]