There’s a piece in the Daily Journal of Commerce today noting the confirmation of Scott Bricker as Executive Director of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (Scott has been interim since this summer). Scott and I have labored side-by-side on a number of issues since we both were appointed to TPAC (Metro’s technocratic – as opposed to…

Rent a bike! Similar to the Flexcar car sharing program, but perhaps paid for in part by advertising, we may soon be able to rent any of up to 500 bicycles in downtown Portland. From portlandonline.com: The City of Portland is accepting proposals for a bike rental system in the central city area. Imagine being…

Bike lawyer Ray Thomas will answer all your legal questions and talk about the new Vehicular Homicide law. 9-10AM, Wednesday, October 3rd KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm Podcast here later that day

One of the issues being looked at for the update to Portland’s Bicycle Master Plan is the issue of ‘cycle tracks’, bike lanes that enjoy some physical separation from auto traffic. Streetsblog has a post on just such a proposal for a corridor in New York. Could it work here? If so, where?