[Editor’s note: This story is the first from IShareTheRoad.com contributor and pedestrian advocate Kim Cottrell.]

Five blocks from home and ready to be off the street, my progress was suddenly halted when the cars in front of me stopped at the traffic circle to let someone cross the street. An very unsteady older […]

[Jay Graves]

The Bike Gallery has been a fixture in the Portland community for over 30 years. Founded in 1974 by the Graves family, the family-owned business has expanded to six stores and has become one of the most respected bike shops in the country.
Jay Graves—a 48 year-old Portland native—has been at the helm of […]

How we deal with our frustrations on the road has a lot to do with how they will end up affecting our driving, riding, or walking.
James Adamson (AKA “Magnum”) is a local messenger who chooses to be calm and collected when someone makes him mad. Magnum was profiled in today’s Oregonian (page […]

[Another day at the office for Arvin Bradley]

Arvin Bradley is not your average flagger. He likes his job, and amazingly, people like him.
Bradley is an 11-year union flagger who’s currently working the western end of the Hawthorne Bridge. After reading a story about him in the Oregonian, I grabbed my camera and notebook […]

The City of Portland’s Safe Routes to School program has released their first year-end report.
[Download a copy of the Safe Routes to School Year 1 Report (PDF, 1.3MB)]
The federally funded program, which is managed through a partnership between the City of Portland Office of Transportation and the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, will more than […]

[Photo from Flickr: bublynski]

An article in last Sunday’s Oregonian reported that motorcycle fatalities are on the rise in Oregon.
The report detailed that more inexperienced bikers are taking to the road and the result is a 29% jump in fatal crashes from 2004-2005, and a 19% jump in the number of total crashes (Washington […]

[Screenshot from video.]

The League of American Bicyclists has released a four-minute video that gives an overview of the national Safe Routes to School program.
To see the video, visit this page on the League’s website.
The clip was created through a grant and is designed to offer a “succinct, attractive and non-technical promotional piece” that explains what […]