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State grant program awards $330,000 to reduce car use in …
2024年12月18日 · $15,000 could be important money for some community effort to connect people to bikes and increase their mobility. It pales in comparison to the $2.7 million, at least, that ODOT put in the pockets of “consultants” to astroturf …
Oregon State Parks e-bike rule change takes key step forward
2024年10月10日 · The State of Oregon has taken an important step toward what could be a big change to where electric bikes can ridden. On Wednesday, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) announced that the official rulemaking process has begun for where e-bikes can be used in state park properties and the Oregon Coast.
Meet the Portlander piecing together our streetcar history, one …
2024年12月17日 · This is cool Pete and it gets to a somewhat both exciting and depressing point I feel about former rail systems. There is so much potential! Various uses for these massive undertakings (entire mountains have been moved to create berms and trestles, for example, the Paulinskill Viaduct) exist (e.g., recreational rail biking, rails-to …
Portland’s World Naked Bike Ride will take the year off
2024年6月12日 · Working as an unpaid volunteer at a community bike shop here in NC, I feel for the organizers, I really do. Even paid staff get burned out. Finding the right sort of leadership is really hard, and keeping them going year after year is harder still, given collective volunteer meltdowns, constant budget woes, sudden and arbitrary non-cooperation by other staff and agencies, the weather, and ...
September 18, 2024 – BikePortland
2024年9月18日 · The original PDX WNBR, the one that’s happened in Portland since 2004, is an official project of Umbrella, a 501c3 nonprofit that provides financial and legal support to a host of cool things in our community — from the naked ride to Shift (host of the Bike Summer calendar), Breakfast on the Bridges, The Ladd’s 500, and so on.As the legal entity (a.k.a. fiscal sponsor) behind PDX WNBR ...
Aufderheide Drive finally gets its due as one of the best bike …
2024年11月22日 · It’s shocking it took this long but I’m happy to say Aufderheide Drive is now an official State Scenic Bikeway. As expected, at their meeting Wednesday the Oregon Parks and Recreation Commission approved an application to make Aufderheide Drive, also known Forest Road 19) the 18th official Oregon Scenic Bikeway.The Scenic Bikeway program began in 2009 and this is the first new designation ...
Another north Portland bike shop is closing – BikePortland
2024年10月14日 · When Kenton Cycle Repair closes its doors for good on October 26th there will be no bike shops in north Portland west of Interstate Avenue. The closure, announced by the shop’s owner Rich Walker in an email to customers on Saturday, leaves an 18 square mile swath of our city without a bike shop.
Portland’s new mayor Keith Wilson is steeped in transportation
2024年11月7日 · It’s official: Keith Wilson is Portland’s next mayor. A relative political newcomer who received just 5% of the vote when he ran for a seat on Portland City Council in 2020, he walloped his incumbent competition and will finish with about 62% of the votes.
MADE bike show returns to Portland in August – BikePortland
2024年7月24日 · Last year MADE brought around 200 exhibitors to the cavernous, 100,000-square foot former shipbuilding warehouse and in so doing set a new standard for handmade bike shows and cemented Portland’s status as a cycling epicenter.