Portland Transport

Category: Bikes

  • Bikes Play Key Role in New York Transit Strike Response

    Vancouver bike advocate Todd Boulanger passes along some notes on how bikes are playing a role in getting commuters in and out of New York City this week. While the official transit strike information site offers little in the way of info for cyclists, Transportation Alternatives (NY’s answer to the BTA?) has a comprehensive information…

  • 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!