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[Updated: 8:31am, 2:13pm - Please see end of story for a major update.] The Portland Police Bureau’s Crash Team was called to the scene of a serious injury hit-and-run that occurred at 2:44 am this morning (Saturday, 5/10) at the 6900 block of NE Fremont St. (just north of Sandy Blvd). According to the PPB, officers [...]

Bike traffic on the Hawthorne Bridge.(Photo © J. Maus) Bicycling Magazine has released their list of the “Best Cities for Cycling” and Portland is once again on top. Here’s what Bicycling’s Brian Fiske writes about Portland in their June issue: “What perennially puts Portland atop our list is that you don’t need to know anything about bike [...]

After a downtown time-trial on Tuesday, racers will tackle Mt. Tabor.(Photos © J. Maus) The sixth annual Mt. Hood Cycling Classic will kick-off in Portland early next week. The event be the most prestigious professional cycling race ever held in the city. Race director Chad Sperry says the race will be a qualifier for [...]

Green bike lanes, like this one on SE 7th in Portland, are also being installed in Seattle.(Photo © J. Maus) Portland isn’t the only city in the region to go green for bikes. The Seattle Department of Transportation installed that city’s first green bike lanes earlier this week. According to a press release from SDOT, green [...]

One Million Bicycles, the ambitious event that plans to hold 100 bike rallies in 50 states and recycle and donate 1 million bikes by August 2009, is rolling full steam ahead. Organizer and author/activist Joe “Metal Cowboy” Kurmaskie is assembling his staff, registration is now open at OneMillionBicycles.org and a kick-off video has just been released [...]

Exchange Cycle Tours — who led a ride to Kelly Point last month — will lead the Butte Buster Challenge on Saturday.(Photo: Matt Picio) Here’s a listing of some of the bike events and rides happening in and around Portland this weekend. Major thanks are due to the all-powerful Shift Calendar. If you know of any [...]

Event flyer.Click to enlarge (390k, jpg). I get a lot of emails here at BikePortland.org headquarters — but yesterday was the first time I ever got one from a Deacon. It was a personal invitation from Deacon Thomas Gornick, Director of Evangelization for the Archdiocese of Portland, to attend “the Blessing of the Bikes to be [...]

Here’s a great job opportunity that was posted to the BikePortland Job Listings this week: Inventory Analyst - Chris King Precision Components For a complete list of available jobs, click here. If you’d like more information about the BikePortland Job Listings, contact me, or visit the Job Listings page. You can sign up for the all the [...]

The Beaverton Police Department’s Public Information Officer Sgt. Paul Wandell says a statement about bike safety printed in a city newsletter has been “blown out of proportion.” The advice — that bicyclists should, “walk your bike across busy intersections and streets” — was printed as a bike safety tip and it has touched a nerve among [...]

Devoted bike advocate and transportation guru Chris Smith will take part in a City Club debate tomorrow.(Photo © J. Maus) You’ve got some important choices to make in this election, so why not wait a few days before making up your mind? Tomorrow is the big City Club debate featuring the six candidates vying for City Commissioner [...]

As many of you who already know, all sorts of interesting things can be seen while riding around a city. I’ve been trying to snap photos of random sights on the bikeways around Portland more often. Here are three things that caught my eye in the past few days… I spotted this woman and her child [...]

Cover of the newsletter. “Public Safety” is the theme of a special edition of the City of Beaverton’s Your City newsletter (Beaverton is about 7 miles southwest of Portland). When BikePortland reader Alan Bennett read through it he was shocked to see that under the heading of, Riding Safe: Bicycle Tips, it was recommended that when biking, [...]

Commissioner Adams during an interview in October 2007.(Photo © J. Maus) In a letter sent out this morning to subscribers of his email newsletter, City Commissioner Sam Adams summed up PDOT’s budget woes and made some final statements on the defunct Sauvie Island Bridge re-use plan (I think the statement will also be published as [...]

“If I was not running for Mayor and challenging City Hall’s spending, my opponent would have continued to ram-rod this pet project through”–Sho Dozono Not surprisingly, Commissioners Adams’ opponent in the race for mayor, Sho Dozono, has issued a statement in response to Adams’ decision to pull the plug on the plan to re-use the Sauvie [...]

Green thermoplastic material has just been re-applied (it used to be blue) on this bike lane at SE 7th just before Morrison.(Photos © J. Maus) Portland’s bike boxes have gotten a lot of attention, but selected bike lanes around town have also been getting the green makeover. The green material — made from the mineral corundum [...]

I’ve got a thing for Hungary. My wife Juli was born there and we’ve visited her family several times (they live in Budapest). The old-world romanticism, the food, the history — I just love being there. I also like catchy, bike-related PSAs that use creative hooks to get the message across. I’ve highlighted [...]

An Obama spoke card in Portland, via Los Angeles and New Orleans.(Photos © J. Maus) Local news outlets are reporting that Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for President, is headed to Portland. No specific details about his visit have been announced but he’s expected to be in Portland later this week. Sen. Obama delivered a rousing [...]

Adams addressed the media in his office this morning.(Photos © J. Maus) In a cramped meeting room in his office a few minutes ago, Commissioner Adams explained how rising gas prices have impacted PDOT’s transportation budget and that the Sauvie Island Bridge span reuse project is the first casualty. Standing next to PDOT Director Sue Keil, Adams [...]

“I don’t feel comfortable moving forward at this point.”–Commissioner Sam Adams City of Portland Commissioner Sam Adams will announce tomorrow (5/7) that he will pull the plug on a plan to re-use the Sauvie Island Bridge span as a bicycle and pedestrian crossing over I-405 in Northwest Portland. The decision comes on the eve of a City [...]

PSU’s new President Wim Wiewel.(Photo: PSU) Portland State University’s new President Wim Wiewel (pronounced “vim veeval”) should fit right in at the downtown campus. Wiewel professed his love of bikes in recent stories published by the Oregonian and the Associated Press. The Oregonian reported that Wiewel is from Amsterdam and that, “he says Portland feels like [...]