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Oregon State Parks e-bike rule change takes key step forward
Oct 10, 2024 · The State of Oregon has taken an important step toward what could be a big change to where electric bikes can ridden. On Wednesday, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) announced that the official rulemaking process has begun for where e-bikes can be used in state park properties and the Oregon Coast.
Weekend Event Guide: Trail maintenance, Gaza solidarity, and more
Dec 5, 2024 · Adaptive Cycling Ride – 1:00 pm at Portland Saturday Market (Waterfront) Are you in need of a special bike to suit your needs? One that offers more power-assist, better balance, or other features that might be hard-to-find or understand?
Portland’s World Naked Bike Ride will take the year off
Jun 12, 2024 · Working as an unpaid volunteer at a community bike shop here in NC, I feel for the organizers, I really do. Even paid staff get burned out. Finding the right sort of leadership is really hard, and keeping them going year after year is harder still, given collective volunteer meltdowns, constant budget woes, sudden and arbitrary non-cooperation by other staff and agencies, the weather, and ...
September 18, 2024 – BikePortland
Sep 18, 2024 · The original PDX WNBR, the one that’s happened in Portland since 2004, is an official project of Umbrella, a 501c3 nonprofit that provides financial and legal support to a host of cool things in our community — from the naked ride to Shift (host of the Bike Summer calendar), Breakfast on the Bridges, The Ladd’s 500, and so on.As the legal entity (a.k.a. fiscal sponsor) behind PDX WNBR ...
Opinion: Why our war on traffic deaths is stuck in a quagmire
Dec 6, 2024 · And it turns out the driver wasn’t as innocent as Engstrom made them out to be. Yesterday the PPB said the driver, 38-year-old April Oneal, has been cited for careless driving.. Less than 24 hours after Huynh was violently killed by a careless driver, PBOT posted a video on social media reminding walkers to look both ways before crossing the street. . The video is set to throbbing music and ...
December 18, 2024 – BikePortland
Dec 18, 2024 · PBOT’s bicycle strategy. From PBOT’s Building a Better 82nd Avenue plan. In a presentation on the plan, PBOT Planner Julia Reed told Mayor Ted Wheeler and the rest of council that bicycle use on 82nd is a lower priority than other uses due to its lower classification compared to other modes in our Transportation System Plan.
Podcast: In The Shed Episode 33 – BikePortland
Dec 6, 2024 · Shedenizens, Thank you so much for highlighting 82nd Ave in your conversation! If it comes up again, PBOT’s bikes slowing down transit comments on 82nd aren’t about buses sharing a lane with bikes, they refer to a strawman analysis PBOT did with overbuilt protected bike lanes taking up the entire outside lanes on 82nd, and …
Portland’s new mayor Keith Wilson is steeped in transportation
Nov 7, 2024 · It’s official: Keith Wilson is Portland’s next mayor. A relative political newcomer who received just 5% of the vote when he ran for a seat on Portland City Council in 2020, he walloped his incumbent competition and will finish with about 62% of the votes.
Celebration at Gateway Green marks ‘wild idea’ that became off …
Oct 8, 2024 · That was such a good time at Gateway Green on Saturday, and it is always great to see so many people having fun out there. The access from the transit center down to the top of the park on the new Better Red bridge is a great improvement over the previous, crummy/sketchy I-205 MUP experience along 205, under a couple …