I’m pretty excited about what the Federal High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Program contains for Portland and the Northwest.

The author of Planologie, a blog dedicated to considering the ways we live, build, move, and think, recently spent a few days in Portland, after also visiting Vancouver and Seattle.

The 2010 Portland Sunday Parkway dates have been announced.

Get to Know Your Bike today at Portland State University’s Smith Memorial Student Union (1825 SW Broadway) from 10am to 4pm.
Get to Know Your Bike is a bicycle fair, a celebration of bicycle community and culture, sponsored by Portland State University. All bicyclist and the bicycle curious are invited.
The fair boasts a [...]

The streets were eerily empty at 9:30am when Heather and I left the house. In the cool silence we rode to SE Lincoln to join the pedestrians and cyclists taking part in the final Sunday Parkway of 2009. Last year Heather and I walked the inaugural Sunday Parkway in North Portland, and it [...]

I like to think I know Portland, but Southwest Portland is largely a mystery to me. Its crazy spaghetti street network combined with my abysmal sense of direction have, over the years, discouraged me from getting too familiar. Nevertheless I have vowed, this year, to attend the Multnomah Days street fair and [...]

It’s not just soccer festivities this weekend; there are a lot other things to do:
Friday through Sunday the Bite of Oregon celebrates the food and wine of Oregon at Waterfront Park.
An impressive lineup of restaurants from all over the state will be preparing all manner of food, and of course craft beer and wine will [...]

This weekend sports quite the line up.
There’s a beer fest, of course – the Portland International Beer Festival, which runs all weekend (Friday 4pm-10pm, Saturday 12pm-10pm, Sunday 12pm-7pm) up in the North Park blocks between Davis and Everett. This is the expensive one: $20 for 10 beer tickets and official glass (don’t [...]

Update: The second train starts running August 19th.
Starting in August, two Amtrak Cascade trains a day will make the cross border journey to Vancouver, BC. This means that, finally, Vancouver bound Portlanders won’t have to transfer to a bus or wait until the next day for the final leg of the trip [...]

Start the weekend off right at PGE Park Friday night – the Timbers host the Minnesota Thunder at 8pm. But then, after suitable recovery time, what will you do with the rest of your weekend?
Well for one thing, you can enjoy the beer and bbq and support Habitat for Humanity at the 2009 Oregon Brews [...]