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Eight Questions for the BTA’s New Chief
Big news in the bike world: today the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) announced it will finally have a new executive director, after a four month absence at the helm after Scott Bricker was fired. The group snagged Rob Sadowsky away from Chicago’s Active Transportation Alliance. Sadowsky plans to pick up his wife (who has a […]
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BTA Finally Names New Executive Director
Oregon’s most influential alternative transportation advocacy group, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA), has been without an executive director for four months. Back in November, the group’s board of directors decided to fire then-chief Scott Bricker. This afternoon the BTA announced its hired a new leader: Chicago bike and pedestrian advocate Rob Sadowsky. Sadowsky is currently […]
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City Council: “Aye” to $20 Million Bike/Sewer $$$
The Portland Bike Plan just got $20 million in kickstart funding. All five commissioners voted “aye” on the Mayor Sam Adams’ plan to divert sewer project savings into a Green Streets fund that would build bioswales on bike boulevards, slowing down traffic while collecting rainwater. Actually “Building It” just got closer. The plan came under […]
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Blurry Photos of Tyler Brady
The 22-year-old Portlander Tyler Brady, whose house I visited this week for In the Shadows, is still missing. On the 28th day of his disappearance, the police have released the last photos anyone has of Brady: surveillance camera footage from the Lloyd Center Safeway and a bar downtown. Brady’s family, friends and the police are […]
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Oh Good, Women Get a Special Section Now.
My favorite nerdy blog about society, Socio Images, has a post up this morning about Bicycling Magazine. A reader and his female partner both receive “the world’s leading bike magazine” and this year’s Buyers Guide looked identical for both of them… except for a sticker on front of her’s: Problems? I’m inclined to agree with […]
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Google Maps Now Has Bike Directions!
Jonathan Maus of BikePortland.org is back in DC for a bike summit and was one of the first to hear the most exciting bike nerd/computer nerd news I’ve heard in a while: Google maps now has bike directions! You can choose your transportation mode on Google maps, but until late last night you were limited […]
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Bike Plan $20 Million Kickstart Will Delay Sewer Projects
City of Portland Our next war: Bikes vs. Bioswales! When Mayor Sam Adams made his surprise announcement of $20 million in “kickstart” funds for the 2030 Bike Plan last month, critics were skeptical. The money was supposed to come from the contract savings in the Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) budget, but the director of […]
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Where is Tyler Brady?
If you’ve seen Tyler or his bike, call 911. Twenty-two-year-old Portlander Tyler Brady has now been missing for 14 days. Brady is a regular Portland guy: he loves bikes, beer and punk shows. He was moving into a house on SE Woodstock called the Dustbin and was last seen riding his black fixed-gear bike with […]
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Male and Female Bike Racks
Now available at your new Portland Planned Parenthood headquarters. This is one of those “Portland” things.
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The Most Insane Thing That Happens in PDX All Year
That would be the Ben Hurt Chariot Wars, an annual bicycle battle royale hosted by ZooBomb. This past Saturday, February 13th, about 200 cyclists and a half-dozen home-welded bicycle chariots converged on an old bridge on North Vancouver Ave that is closed to car traffic. Controlled mayhem ensued. There are only a couple rules to […]
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Portland Bike Plan: Round Two! Updated: Details on 5-0 Vote & Adams’ Surprise $20 Million “Kickstart” Fund
City Council just sat down to discuss and vote on the 2030 Bike Plan. The room is much more empty and subdued than during last week’s bike plan BUILD IT rally here at City Hall, when public testimony on the plan ran over two hours and council voted to table their final vote for another […]