[Scene from last year’s event]

Next week 89 schools across Oregon will participate in International Walk + Bike to School Day. The purpose of the event is to educate kids, parents, and teachers about the benefits of walking and biking to school.
In Portland, 24 schools are signed up to join in the festivities. According […]

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 […]

[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 […]

A new mural with a Share the Road theme has recently been completed on the side of the Hawthorne Auto Clinic at 4307 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Tonight, volunteers and organizers of the project are inviting the community to a mural dedication party. There will be live music, Central American fare and of course an opportunity […]

Many traffic crashes are the result of people just losing their cool and becoming impatient with other people on the road. This is commonly known as road rage.
Leave it to the mental health industry to “diagnose” this condition as an actual disorder. I couldn’t believe this when I heard it on NPR the […]

[Photo: Allan Classen]

Last Wednesday (5/10) City Commissioner Sam Adams held a special meeting in Northwest Portland to discuss pedestrian safety issues in Northwest Portland. Citizen transportation advocate Aaron Tarfman attended and had these thoughts:

“Sam Adams was there along with several top officials at PDOT, the local neighborhood association and the business association. My […]

A group of community activists and artists are working on a new “Share the Road” mural that will soon adorn the side of Hawthorne Auto Clinic (4307 SE Hawthorne) in Southeast Portland.
Below is the preliminary sketch just sent to me by one of the artists, Sara Stout. This is the design she will submit […]

[Lewis Elementary School.]

On Thursday, April 20, kids throughout Portland will begin walking and biking to and from school in Walk + Bike “School Buses”. Demonstration ‘buses’ will be walking and biking from Lewis Elementary on Thursday, April 20, and walking from Forest Park Elementary on Friday, April 21.
The Walk+ Bike School Bus is being […]

There’s a new “Share the Road” mural coming to southeast Portland. Volunteers working as part of a Community Action Project with the Northwest Service Academy have earned a grant through the Community Cycling Center to paint the mural on the wall of the Hawthorne Auto Clinic at 4307 SE Hawthorne Blvd. According to […]

[Photo by Carye Bye]

A group of community activists are working to create a new Share the Road mural that will be painted on the side of the Hawthorne Auto Clinic at 4307 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
The folks behind the mural recently held a Mural Tour bike ride which ended at the Auto Clinic. Here’s a […]