This week’s job opportunity puts the candidate deep into the push for developing active transportation options. Are you detail oriented? Do you geek out over maps and transit schedules? Check out the BikePortland Job Listings for details on this and other gigs.
Public transportation information consulting data engineer — [...]Here are the questions and responses from the live chat with DDOT Director Gabe Klein that had to do with cycling (and there were quite a few). Gabe Klein's responses are in blue.
As a commuting cyclist, I am delighted with the southbound bike lane on 15th St. Marking the [...]
Gordon Price addresses the crowdAbout 60 people gathered in the Portland Building last night to hear professor and former Vancouver B.C. city councilor Gordon Price share his insights on transportation, land use, and urban planning. Price’s presentation, which was part of [...]
When two girls, aged 11 and 10, on bicycles were struck and killed by a van driver in October 1987, the people of Davie resolved to make the small south Florida city safer for bicyclists.
By the end of the year the town council budgeted $150,000 for its first bike [...]
Here's a NY Times piece about a new expensive book of photos made by a young, crazed Dennis Hopper almost 50 years ago. The photos are cool, I'd say, and the people in them are fascinating. Take a look....' [...]
Streetfilms posted a satirical look at a car advocate’s view of the the newly traffic free Times Square. Streetfilms is an NYC based team of filmmakers that has been making films documenting livable transportation issues for some 5 years now, and has dozen so fother shorts to view [...]
College Park has asked Prince George's County to replace a yellow blinking light that drivers routinely ignore with a red light at the spot where the College Park Trolley Trail crosses Paint Branch Parkway. The site has been the location of three crashes, which resulted in a pedestrian, [...]
The District had a ceremony yesterday morning to cut the ribbon on the 15th Street contraflow bike lane. Borderstan, unlike me, was able to make it out. Mayor Fenty, Councilmember Jack Evans and DDOT Director Gabe Klein showed up [...]
My friend Bjorn is teaching me how to climb snow-bound mountains. It is not an enviable task. First, you take this rank beginner person whose natural inclination toward vertigo has led her to avoid climbing all of her adult life, then drag her up to a [...] 
Thanks to Hipster Nascar for reminding us that Chicago’s 2009 edition of Cranksgiving takes place on November 21st in Chicago. The race starts at 4 from 500 Madison, and you’ll need $15.
Click here for a list of more 2009 Cranksgiving races.
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The blog's stats for the last couple of days show that my last post, about the Cannondale Dutchess concept bike for women, has generated a LOT of interest. That certainly doesn’t surprise me. Having seen quite a few student designed concept bikes over the years, [...] 
the messenger industry seems to be on its last leg
the other day was a beautiful sunday... a beautiful rainless sunday that also happened to be a cyclocrossless sunday for me
not the best shot of moonAnother dark, foggy day in Geneva, with low cloud cover. Only one thing to do …. get above it into the sun.
Starting from the village of Crozet is a fantastic deserted little forest road up the Jura mountains. We did see (and hear) a few hunters, but otherwise it [...]
Another dark, foggy day in Geneva, with low cloud cover. Only one thing to do …. get above it into the sun.
Starting from the village of Crozet is a fantastic deserted little forest road up the Jura mountains. We did see (and hear) a few hunters, but otherwise it [...]
Cascade Couriers in Oregon
a story about by some guy who moved to Peru and bought a used bikeAn issue that has been simmering since April 2006 has finally reached some resolution. The River View Cemetery Association Board of Trustees has met several times in the last few weeks to address the issue of bicycle traffic going through their property. The issue reached a boiling point in [...]
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Vancouver gives plenty of space andTonight, Portland is set to get schooled once again by the highly engaging and sharp [...]
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