Category: Bikes

  • Audio: Bicycle Highways in the Sky

    From last week’s Smart City radio program: Imagine this: Bicycles traveling at speeds up to 50 miles per hour in enclosed tubes hanging above the streets. That’s the vision of Chris Hardwicke, a Toronto architect who is promoting his idea as Velo-City. It’s worth a listen (it’s the first segment in the show’s audio file…

  • Bike Show Now on iTunes

    Our KBOO Bike Show podcast is now available on iTunes. To find it, type “KBOO Bike” into the search box in iTunes. Eventually we should show up in the podcast directory listing under Transportation, sub-category Bicycles. However, updating of these categories is notoriously slow, so we don’t know when we’ll show up.

  • KBOO Bike Show: Safer Streets

    Special guests, Bill Sinnot, Commander of the Portland Police traffic divison and Greg Raisman, PDOT`s traffic safety specialist discuss projects, programs and enforcement actions they are working on to make the streets safer for cyclists.

  • Portland Transport Now Hosting KBOO Bike Show Podcast and Archive

    A few weeks ago I posted a bit of rant about the fact that our competitor for Platinum biking status – Davis, CA – podcasted their bike talk show, while the Portland equivalent, on KBOO, disappeared into the ether after the monthly broadcast. Well, no more! KBOO Bike Show hosts Ayleen Crotty and Sara Stout…

  • Win a Free Bike Tour

    Over at http://www.portlandpeace.org/, they’re offering a raffle for one of their “Sustainable Energy in Motion” bike tours. We don’t know a whole lot about the organization (other than that their blog often picks up links to our posts here at Portland Transport). But the goals sound admirable and the tours looks like fun. Check it…