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From our Bike Events Calendar
Apr23Tue6:00 pm SDOT – Bicycle Master Plan Cafe ...SDOT – Bicycle Master Plan Cafe ...Apr 23 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pmFrom SDOT: Join us for cafe-style conversations with transportation planners and Department of Neighborhoods staff to discuss a draft six-year plan to build facilities encouraging and accommodating more people riding a bicycle. Read our recent blog post to learn about … Continue readingApr24Wed6:00 pm Ballard-Fremont Greenways MeetingBallard-Fremont Greenways MeetingApr 24 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pmBallard-Fremont Greenways meets monthly on the 4th Wednesday of the month. Location TBD.FacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmail6:00 pm SDOT – Bicycle Master Plan Cafe ...SDOT – Bicycle Master Plan Cafe ...Apr 24 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pmFrom SDOT: Join us for cafe-style conversations with transportation planners and Department of Neighborhoods staff to discuss a draft six-year plan to build facilities encouraging and accommodating more people riding a bicycle. Read our recent blog post to learn about … Continue readingApr25Thu6:30 pm Bike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsBike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsApr 25 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pmDetails: Volunteer Repair Parties (VRP) are drop-in, weekly bike repair parties for adults (age 18 and up). You do not need to be a skilled bike mechanic to help out. This is how most volunteers with Bike Works get their … Continue readingApr27Sat1:00 pm SE Seattle Biketrain – Weekend RideSE Seattle Biketrain – Weekend RideApr 27 @ 1:00 pm
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Tag Archives: portland
It’s time to give Summer Streets and Bicycle Sunday an energizing makeover
People love Summer Streets, Seattle’s summertime open streets events on neighborhood commercial streets in Greenwood, Alki, Ballard and Rainier Valley. They also love Bicycle Sunday, Seattle’s innovative open streets event that has been making sections of Lake Washington Boulevard car-free … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle sunday, open streets, portland, sally bagshaw, summer parkways, summer streets
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City building and planning neighborhood greenways in all corners of the city this year
The city is catching its groove on neighborhood greenways this year, setting a pace for installing and planning them in all corners of the city simultaneously. While neighborhood greenways so far have been somewhat experimental and one-off projects, 2014 is … Continue reading
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Tagged bike portland, dawn schellenberg, neighborhood greenways, portland, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways
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Multimodal book tour stop #1: Portland
I am in Portland, the first stop on a multimodal book tour I am taking for the next couple weeks with my partner Kelli Refer. She is promoting her book Pedal, Stretch, Breathe: The Yoga of Bicycling, which just arrived … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle sunday, kelli refer, multimodal book tour 2013, pedal stretch breathe, portland, summer streets, sunday parkways
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Amtrak Cascades trains can now carry more bikes
Amtrak’s Cascades trains can now carry ten bikes, a small but potentially trip-saving change for a route that connects some of the continent’s bikiest cities. The train connects Vancouver, BC, to Eugene, passing through Bellingham, Seattle and Portland. The fact … Continue reading
In 1990, Seattle topped Portland and nearly every other US city in bike commuting
Here’s a stat that should light a fire under the exhaustively-slow Seattle process that has delayed so many needed bicycle safety and access work: Seattle used to be at the very top of cycle commuting in the US and Canada. … Continue reading
PDX Study: Downhill bike boxes may increase collisions
A multi-year study of bike-involved collisions at Portland intersections that have bike boxes has returned mixed results showing only minimal reductions in collisions at some intersections and increases at others. The results have prompted the city to rethink some of … Continue reading
Bike commute numbers unchanged in 2011 Census survey
Bike commute numbers remained relatively unchanged in 2011 compared to 2010, according to newly released data from the Census Bureau’s annual American Communities Survey. The percentage of commuters choosing to bike came in at 3.5 percent,* one tenth of a … Continue reading
Portland man tracks thief who stole his bike to Seattle, thief arrested – UPDATED
The string of awesome stolen bike recovery stories is not over yet. The latest comes from a Portland man who posted his story to Reddit: Yesterday was a good day. My bike was ripped off in pdx. I found in … Continue reading
New budget Seattle-to-Portland express bus service allows bikes
Getting to Portland with your bike may have just gotten cheaper. New bus service BoltBus boasts fares starting at a dollar (plus a dollar transaction fee, of course) for direct service from King Street Station to Portland (647 SW Salmon … Continue reading
Tuesday afternoon theater: An inspiring neighborhood greenways presentation
If you didn’t make it to last week’s neighborhood greenways presentation and discussion with Portland’s Greg Raisman and Mark Lear, you’re in luck! University Greenways caught the whole thing on video (Mark and Greg’s talk gets going around the 8:00 … Continue reading
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Tagged eli goldberg, greg raisman, mark lear, neighborhood greenways, portland, university greenways
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This week: PDX planners talk neighborhood greenways Thursday + Bok Bok Bok alleycat Friday
Portland’s Bike Boulevards Become Neighborhood Greenways from Streetfilms on Vimeo. Two people central to bicycle planning in Portland will be in town tomorrow (September 22) to talk neighborhood greenways. Mark Lear and Greg Raisman will be at the UW at … Continue reading
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Tagged alleycat races, bikery, events, greg raisman, mark lear, mike archambault, neighborhood greenways, pee wee, portland
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Banning children from bike seats is bad politics
Local and state lawmakers in Washington, hear this tale of warning from Oregon: Don’t propose a ban on children in bike seats. An Oregon legislator, Mitch Greenlick, has proposed a bill that would make it illegal to carry a child … Continue reading
Ballard’s Bikeability: Could Portland’s lessons work well there?
In April, Adam Parast wrote a post for Seattle Transit Blog about a GIS project he had done to analyze a city’s bikeability. The project is full of fantastic information and pondering about what it means for a city or … Continue reading
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Tagged ballard, ballard news tribune, islands of bikeablility, portland, seattle transit blog
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Tuesday: Portland bike planner Mia Birk to talk at REI – UPDATED
UPDATE: The event starts at 7, not at 7:30 as we and other sites had reported. Do you have Portland bike envy? (if you don’t, watch this) Well, Tuesday is your chance to hear Mia Birk, who led much of … Continue reading
Portland takes the ‘bad ass’ out of biking, part 2: PBOT proposes 20 mph speed limits
In part two of this short series about Portland’s biking infrastructure, and how it lets you ride bikes without the need to be a bad ass all the time, we’ll look at a proposal by the Portland Bureau of Transportation … Continue reading
Portland takes the ‘bad ass’ out of biking, part 1: The Going St bicycle boulevard
While riding around Portland this weekend (my first time seeing the city by bike), I came to one big conclusion: Seattle bikers are bad asses. Biking in Portland is so easy that there is hardly any excuse not to bike (before … Continue reading
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Tagged bike boulevards, going street, portland, portland takes the bad ass out of biking
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‘Free Ice Cream for Bike Lane Builders’
BikePortland has a cheery report today about a group of appreciative bikers who are on a mission to bring cool treats to workers on bike infrastructure projects. Perhaps we could do something similar for our bike project workers. After all, … Continue reading
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After a year, a look at the Broadway cycle track (no, not our Broadway)
After the cycle track plans for Dexter were scrapped, Seattle’s cycle track future rests, for now, on Broadway. Here’s a video of the Broadway concept: Today, Bike Portland takes a look at their year-old cycle track on their Broadway. Initial … Continue reading
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Bike News Roundup: Mark Twain was for bike sharing programs before it was cool a U.N. conspiracy
The Social Bicycle System from Ryan Rzepecki on Vimeo. This week’s roundup looks at bike sharing programs, from innovation to history to conspriacy theories. SoBi (see video above) is a concept for a bike sharing system that is supposedly 1/4 … Continue reading
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Tagged blog roundup, colorado, denver, hickenlooper, maes, mark twain, portland, seattle likes bikes, sobi
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