Tag: portland
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After a year, a look at the Broadway cycle track (no, not our Broadway)
After the cycle track plans for Dexter were scrapped, Seattle’s cycle track future rests, for now, on Broadway. Here’s a video of the Broadway concept: Today, Bike Portland takes a look at their year-old cycle track on their Broadway. Initial reports are mostly positive, though there do seem to be some concerns from pedestrians:
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Bike News Roundup: Mark Twain was for bike sharing programs before it was
coola U.N. conspiracyThe Social Bicycle System from Ryan Rzepecki on Vimeo. This week’s roundup looks at bike sharing programs, from innovation to history to conspriacy theories. SoBi (see video above) is a concept for a bike sharing system that is supposedly 1/4 the cost per bicycle. Basically, you can mod any ol’ bike with the GPS-based system…
tagged: blog roundup, colorado, denver, hickenlooper, maes, mark twain, portland, seattle likes bikes, sobi -
Bikestravaganza coming to town Saturday (also, best tattoo ever)
Best tattoo ever at 0:40 Coming out of Portland, Bikestravaganza is a touring “evening of bike talk, bike zines, and short movies about transportation activism.” Basically, the goal of the tour is to talk about what is good and bad about biking in Portland and to discuss what is happening in towns on the West…
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