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A New Program Lets Portlanders Take Discounted Taxi, Uber or Lyft Rides Home on Halloween

Portland Bureau of Transportation’s Safe Ride Home program offers Halloween transit discounts of up to $20 off a taxi ride and $5 off Lyft and Uber rides citywide.

The City of Portland is No Longer Charging Fees For Leaf Pickup

Good news Portland: You no longer have to pay the city to remove leaves near your house.

Video Shows Portland Cyclist Nearly Getting Hit By Car Driven Without Headlights In Better Naito Bike Lane

Richard Bidmead was biking home late after work on Sept. 9 when he was nearly struck by a car, driving without its headlights illuminated, in the Better Naito bike lane.

Is Portland’s E-Scooter Fad Waning? New Data Show Ridership Is Dwindling.

Numbers show a declining number of rides over the last week.

The Dialogue: What Readers Think About Scofflaw Scooters Breaking City Speed Limits

Last week, WW raced Lime, Bird and Skip e-scooters to determine which one goes fastest (“Scooter Speed Trials,” WW, Aug. 22, 2018). Skip scooters won, at 19.3 mph, followed by Lime at 16.2 mph and Bird at 14.9 mph.

Scooters Break Oregon Speed Limits, and Portland City Hall Is Considering Fines For Scofflaw Companies

Last week, as a result of WW’s highly-scientific researching of scooter speeds (yes, we raced them) we learned something interesting: Bird is the only company with scooters that adhere to city speed limits.

Three Scooter Companies Are Competing to Own Portland’s Streets. Here’s How They Compare.

Less than a year ago, electric scooters were Christmas gifts for children. Now they’re the next frontier in a big-dollar Silicon Valley battle to grab control of a new urban transportation market.

Data Sets Prove Portlanders Are Welcoming Their New Scooter Overlords

To gain entry into Portland for four months, scooter startups offered something valuable in return: data, lots of it, and fast. The city’s pilot program requires scooter companies to share numbers—like how many rides people are taking, how far they’re riding, and where they go.

E-Scooter Startup Skip Calls Competitors Hypocritical and Alleges They Throw Dead Scooters in Landfills

What happens to scooters when they die? San Francisco startup Skip says unnamed competitors (which in Portland include Lime and Bird) dump theirs in landfills.

Somebody Rode a Scooter for 22 Miles in One Portland Trip

Since July 26, when 600 scooters were deployed in the city, Portland Bureau of Transportation counts 47,836 rides have been taken.

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