I could describe countless stories of motorists I’ve seen doing very dangerous things as they maneuver around the streets of the city. Not just rude, but dangerous. I could describe just as many stories of pedestrians or bicyclists behaving without caution as they go to and fro, putting themselves and others at risk.

But, just yesterday […]

[Traffic Division Commander
Marty Rowley.]

Allow me to introduce the I Share the Road Portrait Gallery. The idea behind this project it to reinforce the human perspective and personal pledge of sharing the road.
When members of the community and PDOT sat down to decide on a slogan for this campaign, I thought “Share the […]

[Blumenauer in D.C]

Earl Blumenauer understands the link between traffic safety, sharing the road, and livability. As a child, he rode his bike to school and now, as a U.S. Congressman, he has made livable communities his top-priority issue.
A Portland native and former City Commissioner (1986-96), Blumenauer commutes by bike daily to his office on […]

[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 and […]

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 […]