Portland Transport

Category: Bikes

  • Trails Strategy Posted

    Update 4 July 2006: Two nice pieces in the Trib this morning about the trails plan: one on the overall system, one on the North Portland trail. Original Post 22 June 2006: From the BTA Blog, Portland Parks and Rec has posted their Trails Strategy (PDF, 1.5M) and will present it to City Council on…

  • Tomorrow on the KBOO Bike Show

    Sara will interview bike touring experts Carie and Allan Folz about their expedition to Laos, on a tandem, with their 2-year-old son Cody.

  • Portland Messengers Rate Mention in the The Economist

    This week’s Economist includes an article datelined Portland that talks about a threat to bicycle messengers: electronic document transmission.

  • Do Ghost Bikes Help or Hurt?

    At the bike summit on Saturday, there was an interesting comment in the “Why People Don’t Ride” session. Ghost Bikes scare people. The white bicycles, placed at locations where riders have been killed are (as I understand it) intended as a combination memorial and reminder to our leaders that we need to make conditions safer.…

  • Commuter Decision Making

    One of the nice things about the bike summit was the opportunity to make connections. Either putting faces on names that might have just been an e-mail address before, or meeting new people. One new connection for me was a PSU instructor who is doing a study on how people make commuting choices. He’s recruiting…