This must be what mainstream feels like. Thursday’s Wall Street Journal has an article (sorry, no link, you need a password) in the “Personal Journal” section talking about efforts by cities to attract people to bicycle commuting. The focus is on incentives and end-of-trip facilities. Portland gets a mention, but not a very accurate one:…

Here’s an interesting link I picked up from the Word Car Free Network list. Apparently there is an effort to get bicycles and bicycle parts classified as “environmentally preferable products” for purposes of the World Trade Organization, so they can be imported and exported with out tariffs. I’m not sure what that would mean for…

May is National Bike Month and Portland Transportation Options wants to celebrate the committed bike commuter and those who might be curious about bike commuting! Options is hosting a Bike to Work Day event on Wednesday, May 17, at the Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown Portland. The event will be held from 7:30 to 9:00…

Spring brings repaving, and repaving on NW 18th and 19th in my neighborhood means the permanent installation of sharrows! We got temporary markers last fall, but now the real things are going in. Yeah! But this one has me confused. This is NW 18th northbound just before Everett St. (sorry for the cell-phone quality photo).…