Portland Transport

Category: Bikes

  • A Natural Connection? Open Source Software and Alternative Transporation

    I’ve often thought that the philosophies behind open source software and alternative transportation were fundamentally in sync. They’re about making better use of our shared commons. In one case, the commons of ideas and their expression, in the other, the commons of our public spaces and transportation infrastructure. I got a little bit of reinforcement…

  • Updates to the Bike Channel

    Based on feedback from users, we’ve changed the background on the Portland Bike Channel. It’s now a collage (updated daily) from Jonathan’s photos. It does not rotate, and content above it is no longer semi-transparent. Clearly this was a case of a cool programming feature not being useful to real users :-) We’ve also added…

  • Announcing the “Bike Channel”

    Here at Portland Transport we’re announcing a new site today, which we’re titling “The Portland Bike Channel”. You can find it at http://bikechannel.portlandtransport.com. This is an ‘aggregated’ site. It cotains capsule summaries of the posts to Bike Portland, ORBike and Portland Transport blogs (the bike category only from the latter). The idea is to create…

  • Bicycle Built for Four

    Responding to our posts about bikes in the Netherlands, reader Miles Hochstein points us to a post on his photo-blog with a unique pedal-powered-vehicle!

  • Bicycling wins big nationally; more trails and Safe Routes for Oregon

    The Oregonian picked up on a national AP article yesterday about the growing influence of bicycling in Congress, and how that’s resulted in an increase in federal funds that can be spent on improving bicycling and walking conditions. The Oregonian article notes that President Bush switched to mountain biking from running a few years back…