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Flushing The Bike Plan Into The Sewer?

Sam Adams, still our fair city’s mayor, is the Will Rogers of public works projects—he’s never met one he didn’t like.
Especially if it has something about it that’s trendy, green or sustainable.
Today, the City Council will vote on Adams’ proposal to siphon $20 million from Portland’s sewer fees to jump start the recently enacted 2030 [...]

“I Thought Of That While Riding My Bike”*

by Gil Johnson

The past week’s glorious weather has permitted me to actually look up and around as I’ve pedaled my bike throughout town. The veil of drizzle was lifted and the sun illuminated some things I hadn’t been paying attention to. Such as:
Yard signs. This may be too much to ask in a town where one still [...]

02.22.2010 See the rest → 2 comments

Portland Pedal Power

by PAgent

I’m becoming downright fond of the new Green Line. By hopping on a MAX at lunchtime, I can visit entirely new food carts, carts previously unattainable given the state of my ancient and creaking knees and the temporal limits of my lunch hour.
I was on such a mission today, visiting the carts at SW 3rd [...]

10.13.2009 See the rest → 2 comments

Father’s Day on a bike – Sunday Parkways

by Dieselboi

Summer = Bikes. Well, not necessarily in Portland when you can also find streams of bicycles cruising down the street on the worst day of the year. But summer does bring out the bikes for those non-commuters or regular year- round bikers. Sunday is yet another chance for Portlanders to get out on their bikes [...]

06.19.2009 See the rest →

Low-Car Lifestyle Clinic @ Portland Farmers Market

by Jeremy Towsey-French

The recent shift to sunnier skies has many Portlanders dreaming of cruising down stumptown’s tree-lined boulevards on a bike. For many, these visions might also be accompanied by questions about how to best take advantage of a bicycle to meet the needs of everyday life –like a simple trip to the grocery store, or a [...]

05.11.2009 See the rest →

Cyclists: The Next Generation

by Betsy Richter

I’m a lover, not a fighter. And I’d rather make peace than foster war. This includes the never-ending battle of cyclists vs. drivers (especially as it’s depicted in stereotypical ‘us vs. them’ fashion by The Increasingly-Smaller Daily.)
My kid has been behind the curve when it comes to riding a [...]

08.04.2008 See the rest → 2 comments

A North Portland bike tour…..with some beer

by Dieselboi

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On Saturday afternoon, 4 of my North Portland friends and I got together for an afternoon of bike fun. I think we originally organized this as a couple of people who wanted to get together on bikes and have a couple of beers and it turned into an afternoon/evening of some [...]

06.17.2008 See the rest → 2 comments