Just wrapped four great conversations with folks during my weekly virtual office hours. I'm so grateful for all the supportive words and thoughts from people who've read BP over the years!!
Next week I'll open more office hour times and will encourage more folks to drop in. stay tuned.
Looking forward to hosting Bike Happy Hour next week (Weds 4/22).
I'll post on the blog about it on Monday, but I'm hoping folks will show up and be ready to share thoughts about what the next chapter of BikePortland should look like.
And/or just show up to chat and hang out as per usual. 😎
Someone just asked me if they should delete their BikePortland web shortcut. "Heck no!" I said.
I am not shutting the site down or making it dormant. BikePortland will absolutely live on and publish again.
What form that takes is what I'm working on.
Stay tuned! 🙏
that is so annoying and messed up. Tag them and let folks know so they feel some heat.
I've been thinking a lot about what comes next for me and BikePortland.
Not sure yet, but feels good (and weird!) to get this out into the world.
hoping to have an epic open mic at this one. Maybe some of our legendary commenters will even come out of the shadows 🤣
and FWIW from what I've heard, PBOT is approaching the street damage fee as more of a behavior modification tool. They hope the threat of paying more will make agencies coordinate better so streets don't get opened up as much and projects happen all at once.
In some ways that already happens. PBOT has a history of doing new designs and restriping roads when they do major paving projects. It would make sense on ANY reconstruction like the type of street damage this new fee applies to, because those are only relatively tiny projects.
Hi. That'd be really tough to find because PBOT just doesn't break down expenses like that. Many projects include sidewalk/sidewalk-related work, but aren't necessarily "sidewalk projects". Know what I mean? Best you could get are estimates. I'd do public records to find it.
Councilor Koyama Lane wants 25% of new revenue for Vision Zero.
Councilor Zimmerman wants 12.5% for Vision Zero and 12.5% for a sidewalk-specific program.
But almost everyone on council (only "no" so far being Ryan) wants the same thing: More funding for PBOT.
Note: I took this post down over the weekend. I'll share more when I can. Thanks for understanding.
Your turn @mayorkwilson.bsky.social.
We have Sunday Parkways... now let's do more of them!
But the same people who will buy that car will complain that gas prices are too high.
Good clip. Let’s ged rid of I-5 on the east bank and take our city back!
Full interview here youtu.be/oFSUzEyCPH8?...
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Orban has conceded! Magyar wins!!
A victory for the world.
A loss for authoritarians and MAGA.
Thanks for this. I’m working on it and considering next steps. Thanks for flagging.
Hi michael! Was nice to see you in that piece. I think we made some incredible journalism together. Your work elevated BP to a new level. 🙏🏻 thank you
Had to do it
I totally agree. We gotta pass something.
PBOT included a section in the report to remind folks that there's still a lot of "energy and enthusiasm" around bikes in our city... especially around bike buses!
Where would we be without the bike bus bright spot?!!
haha. I'm not dogmatic about this type of stuff and feel that word choice is very context-specific, depends on the messenger, and so on. It's still MUCH better than "accident"!
i should have added that I am still a "crash not accident" believer... But like all these conversations, context is the most important factor in word choice. I see "crash" used often in a way that I feel biases the word toward a driver-error type of interpretation that I don't like.
Great point. "Crash" to me is a loaded term. It connotes a mistake by the operator. And Suzette is right that this headline focuses on an innocent person who was killed by a driver that made a huge error.
Imagine instead:
"Driver kills vulnerable road user while making illegal u-turn"
Notable that police have cited the driver in this fatal collision with a scooter rider with Illegal U-Turn Contributing to an Accident and Careless Driving Causing Significant Injury Or Death To A Vulnerable Road User.
Good to see VRU/Careless driving law used. www.portland.gov/police/news/...
Fingers crossed for Hungary. Best chance yet to get rid of Orban. 🤞
Tis the season when the Weekend Event Guide really shows off.
Check out this amazing selection of options for the weekend...
bikeportland.org/2026/04/09/w...
those are cool. I'm wearing my son's clogs fwiw.
In 2022, PBOT blamed a motor failure and supply-chain issues in trying to replace it. Now the problem is recurring vandalism and the solutions are not easy.
bikeportland.org/2026/04/08/e...
A clip from the Brandon Mullen interview where he shares why transportation is such a big part of his city council campaign platform.
youtube.com/shorts/C70bW...