First snow of the season! ❄️🌨️☃️⛄️Hope you had a chance to enjoy it. Our tradition is to grab a bike, a strap, and a sled and pull the kids around the streets.
Have fun out there!
“If we do not do our part in trying to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, in my view we will be complicit in the misery, destruction, and death of millions upon millions of our fellow human beings for hundreds of years to come.”
In case you were curious about Portland’s current stance on the fight against climate change, here’s the powerful opening statement from Councilor Novick at the first ever meeting of City Council’s Climate, Resilience, and Land Use Committee. #climatechange #portlandoregon
A man drove his car into a streetcar stop in northwest Portland this morning. @portlandpolice say he was suspected of stealing the car and fled as they attempted to stop him. This dashcam footage was provided by a witness.
Thankfully no one was seriously injured. And the suspect was arrested on the scene.
New episode of In The Shed just dropped and wanted to share that we finally unlocked technology to share my iPad screen in the video. So now we can have more interesting discussions about routes in the “How’d She Get There?!” segment.
In this clip @evafrazier and I explore how a new Bike Happy Hour attendee might have gotten to Migration Brewing on N Williams from NE 156th and Glisan!
Next I want to figure out how to use a pen tool as I speak so I can draw on the map.
Don’t miss the latest BikePortland Podcast episode with Joshua Force @ukodus.8. He’s 15,000+ miles into an amazing journey with no end in sight. And he’s doing it while creating fun and creative monthly newsletters full of puzzles, drawings, photos, writings and more.
I’ve been a subscriber and supporter of Joshua’s trip for a while now and highly recommend hitting up his GoFundMe or Substack to live vicariously through him.
Short clip from my conversation at The Shed today w D4 City Councilor-elect Olivia Clark @olivia4portland. Full interview out Monday.
Cameron Booth, founder and creator of Transit Maps, is on a mission to better understand the 100-year-old history of Portland streetcars. As part of his new Portland Streetcar History project he’s transcribed over 1,000 articles from The Oregonian to piece together this amazing era of public transportation.
Hear about the cyclist who fell into the cable car hole and sued the company, how streetcar companies worried they were losing customers to bike riders, and much more from Cameron in this interview.
Full interview on YouTube.
#streetcars #transitmaps #maps @transit_maps
Ever heard of Portland’s “bike oasis” parking shelters? Four of them were installed in 2007 at a cost of $40,000 each. They harken back to a different era when Portland was a national leader — the unrivaled “Best Cycling City” in America! — and city leaders weren’t afraid to roll out the red carpet for bike riders.
I came across the lonely, empty, vandalized one on NE Sandy the other day and figured it’d be fun to share more about them.
#bikeparking #bikeinfrastructure #portlandoregon
Ever been on a nice bike facility like the wide green lanes on SW Oak (and Stark) and then — just before you get to the place you’re headed (@powellsbooks in this example)— it ends and you have to share the street with drivers for that last few blocks? That drives me nuts! And it doesn’t have to be this way. It’s a choice.
We should choose differently and start making sure all our safe bike lanes connect directly to other safe bike lanes, because every gap like this means fewer people will choose cycling.
#portlandoregon #bikelanes #urbanism
🚨Big news shared at Bike Happy Hour tonight!! The @communitycyclingcenter has met their emergency fundraising goal and is starting a new era with the dark cloud of closing down behind them.
This is their leader Ruben Alvarado sharing the good news.
Full story coming to BikePortland Thursday.
❤️💯💪💥🎉
This mural faces SE MLK Jr. Blvd in a pretty car-centric part of deep Central Eastside. Maybe that’s why I hadn’t seen it until a few weeks ago!
Turns out it’s by Maggie Want @mag.dre and it was completed in 2022 as part of a collab w @portlandstreetartalliance and @leafly. Such a cool work of art and yet another bike-inspired mural in Portland.
#bikeart #portlandoregon #streetart #murals #streetmurals
