Dave Knows: Portland

If you can believe it, Powell’s is expanding
Burnside Bridge repairs are complete!
POVA is now Travel Portland
Registration is open for the 2008 Towards Carfree Cities Conference, to be held in Portland this summer.
And I’d like to wish a happy birthday to Greg Oden, 20 years old!

*Read the inaugural post for a rosebud explanation.

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For about the past five years, I’ve lived car free.
Based on my conscious decision to jettison the private automobile, I’ve had to make decisions about where I make my home, where I work, and what sort of activities I pursue.
Now it’s second nature; I don’t consider being car free a sacrifice (that’s why it’s […]

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The Timbers play Friday and Sunday, so you’ll need to find something to fill the gap. Here are some ideas:
Saturday
The 10th annual Alberta Street Fair is Saturday. There will be multiple stages for music, food vendors, arts and crafts, and of course a parade (at 2:30pm). This is the big daddy […]

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You’ve probably seen bits of this before, but here it is all together in a 30 minute production.

StreetFilms is a project of the New York City Street Renaissance, “a collection of non-profits geared towards re-imagining the city’s public spaces and making our streets safer for pedestrians, bicycles and non-vehicular modes of transportation.” Portland […]

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The Slammer Tavern (500 SE 8th Ave.) will serve as the starting point for this year’s Portland Challenge. Registration begins at noon and the race begins at 2pm. It’s free to enter but the organizers ask participants and fans to make donations to the House of Peace and Love Project (see the official […]

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I’m moving (from downtown to North Portland) this weekend, so unfortunately I won’t be participating in much of this weekend’s goings ons. Here’s what I’ll be missing . . .
Thursday
MAX construction on 5th Avenue in Old Town/Chinatown is almost complete, so TriMet’s throwing a party. Here are the details:

Local bands and musicians including Autopilot, […]

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There’s a post today on the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) blog suggesting bike valet parking at PGE Park.
A couple years ago this very idea came up at BikePortland.org. And festivals and events around town have been providing valet bike parking for years; why not a permanent facility at PGE Park and the Rose […]

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The author of The Overhead Wire, a blog dedicated to “sending up transit and TOD with a little unconventional wisdom”, is visiting Portland for a streetcar workshop, and has posted some great streetcar, tram, and Oregon Brewers Festival photos interspersed with commentary.

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Portland’s bike-friendly culture gets some love in the Portland Mercury’s big-sister weekly The Stranger. Erica C. Barnett writes in the paper’s blog (which for some reason they call SLOG):

In Seattle, when a bike lane threatened to take out a few feet of road that could otherwise be used by cars, businesses put pressure on […]

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Enter your address and press GO at Walkscore.com and you are presented with a Google map mashup showing you all the local walkable grocery stores, restaurants, bars, schools, libraries, etc. You also get a “walk score”. On a scale of 0-100, the walk score gives you a general idea of how walkable your […]

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