News Portland's Bureau of Transportation will announce tomorrow that car traffic on bridges headed to downtown Portland decreased by about the same amount as bicycle traffic in 2009, according to the latest data. The new finding complements information in a Dec. 16 WW story that showed bicycle travel in Portland dipped 6 percent in 2009, the first such decline in at least five years. That story ...   More

News When he gave his friend a ride home on his bicycle from the Aladdin Theatre last February, Kenneth Southerland did not think he was breaking the law. The police did. But Southerland and all Portland cyclists won a victory today when a traffic court judge and the police agreed to discharge Southerland's $143 ticket. By giving his friend a ride on a rack over his rear tire, Southerland had ...   More