Tag: portland

September 21, 2011

This week: PDX planners talk neighborhood greenways Thursday + Bok Bok Bok alleycat Friday

Portland’s Bike Boulevards Become Neighborhood Greenways from Streetfilms on Vimeo. Two people central to bicycle planning in Portland will be in town tomorrow (September 22) to talk neighborhood greenways. Mark Lear and Greg Raisman will be at the UW at 7 p.m. to talk about their efforts to create a remarkable network of very safe…
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tagged: alleycat races, bikery, events, greg raisman, mark lear, mike archambault, neighborhood greenways, pee wee, portland
January 13, 2011

Banning children from bike seats is bad politics

Local and state lawmakers in Washington, hear this tale of warning from Oregon: Don’t propose a ban on children in bike seats. An Oregon legislator, Mitch Greenlick, has proposed a bill that would make it illegal to carry a child younger than six on a bicycle, either in a seat or a trailer. I’m sure…
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tagged: bike portland, family biking, Mitch Greenlick, oregon, portland
December 17, 2010

Ballard’s Bikeability: Could Portland’s lessons work well there?

In April, Adam Parast wrote a post for Seattle Transit Blog about a GIS project he had done to analyze a city’s bikeability. The project is full of fantastic information and pondering about what it means for a city or a neighborhood to be bikeable, and how Seattle’s challenges compare to a city that is…
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tagged: ballard, ballard news tribune, islands of bikeablility, portland, seattle transit blog
November 8, 2010

Tuesday: Portland bike planner Mia Birk to talk at REI – UPDATED

UPDATE: The event starts at 7, not at 7:30 as we and other sites had reported. Do you have Portland bike envy? (if you don’t, watch this) Well, Tuesday is your chance to hear Mia Birk, who led much of Portland’s bike infrastructure investments, speak in Seattle. She is promoting her new book “Joyride: Pedaling…
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tagged: mia birk, portland
October 20, 2010

Portland takes the ‘bad ass’ out of biking, part 3: The Community Cycling Center

It was love at first sight. We were walking down Alberta, peeking into shops, when I turned around and saw this mural. I was drawn to it like a junebug to a lightbulb. In part three of our series about how Portland makes it so you don’t need to be a bad ass to ride…
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tagged: barriers to biking, community cycling center, portland, portland takes the bad ass out of biking
October 19, 2010

Portland takes the ‘bad ass’ out of biking, part 2: PBOT proposes 20 mph speed limits

In part two of this short series about Portland’s biking infrastructure, and how it lets you ride bikes without the need to be a bad ass all the time, we’ll look at a proposal by the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) to lower the speed limits on their bike boulevards to 20 mph.
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tagged: 20’s plenty, portland, portland takes the bad ass out of biking