Portland road safety advocate Sarah Risser (Bike Loud, PBOT Pedestrian Advisory Committee, Families for Safe Streets) and I talk about the pros and cons of blaming individuals over the system when it comes to traffic crashes.

This conversation was inspired by a social media post when I scolded a driver for causing a bad wreck. Sarah then suggested I watch a video about Safety Science from Transportation Alternatives and narrated by safety expert and There Are No Accidents author Jessie Singer.

We dive into the need for blame, the limits of systems thinking (when our systems are totally dysfunctional), and several related issues around why fixing our broken streets and associated traffic culture is so challenging in America.

We're back!

Eva Frazier joined me (BikePortland founder and editor Jonathan Maus) for our 40th episode of "In the Shed," the show where we chat about whatever comes to mind. In this episode we touched on a bunch of good stuff:

• The Reign of Taco Ride
• The wonder of Portland's neighborhood greenway network
• Why runners and cyclists should get together
• The Portland Biking Renaissance (and why Mayor Wilson should embrace it)
• Our impressions of MADE Bike Show
• Week Without Driving
• How many city councilors can we get to participate in Sunday Parkways?
• NW diverter update
• Eva's Cargo Bike Picnic and general Bike Summer amazingness
• Portland Botanical Garden coming along river near University of Portland
• Progress on North Portland Greenway

And more!

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In this episode I share 16 short interviews with folks I bumped into at the MADE Bike Show on Friday, August 22nd. The show runs through this weekend, so you should totally go check it out if you're hearing this any time before August 25th!

Sit back and enjoy fun chats with:

• Mike Smith, co-founder of No. 22 Bicycle Co
• Natalie Peet, bikepacking racer repping Slow Southern Steel
• Gary Fisher, MTB icon
• Dave Bonilla, Portlander and @daverave64 on Instagram
• Molly Lofton and Megan Dean, Moondust Apparel
• Mark DiNucci, Portland framebuilding legend
• Brad Davis, Nomad Cycles PDX
• Oscar McBain, UC Davis Campus Bike Shop GM
• Wendy Downs, Inside Line Equipment
• John the Johnster, cool Portlander who I follow on Instagram
• Dylan Wiggins, Right Hook Finishes
• Brad Wilson, Wilde Bikes
• Dave Levy, Ti Cycles
• Brian Tucker, Yellow Bird Thread Works
• Brenda Martin, another cool Portlander!

It's all anyone in the local bike and transportation scene has been talking about for the past two weeks — a plan hatched by an opaque city office to remove diverters on two neighborhood greenways in northwest Portland under the guise of making it easier for police to patrol the area.

In this episode, BikePortland founder, publisher, and editor Jonathan Maus welcomes community advocate and former host of the the Sprocket Podcast, Joan Petit, into the Shed to hash it all out.

Links:

- BikePortland coverage so far

- City Administrator Michael Jordan's Memo (PDF)

- Central Precinct Commander argument for the plan

- The historic 8/12 Bike Advisory Committee meeting

- Portland Solutions org chart

#portlandoregon #goodgovernance #portland #advocacy #urbanplanning #politics #policing #streetdesign

Welcome to the Shed! In this episode, we talk about:

• Eva's trip to Bend
• PPS School Board elections
• All about Ainsworth (Eva got menaced) and what PBOT has in store for an upgrade
• PBOT's new bicycle marketing effort
• How to counter people who say, "But not everyone can ride a bike."
• Reasons for optimism at City Hall
• City budget stuff
• State transportation package update and cap and trade.
• Bike Summer rides in the Portland Mercury print edition
• How'd she get there? A tough one from SE Woodstock and Cesar Chavez to Peninsula Park for the Kickoff Ride!
• SW Barbur. Ugh! Why?
• and more!

Thanks for listening and for supporting BikePortland!

Co-hosts Jonathan Maus and Eva Frazier are back with another fun chat about all things bikes and Portland.

In this episode, Eva and I talk about:

• My recent total knee replacement surgery
• Cycle Oregon Block Party
• Bike Summer for newbies and veterans
• Why we need wildlife cameras but for Portland cyclists
• Recent Portland City Council debates
• Why it's time for Portland to empower citizen volunteers to improve our streets
• Unhinged Nextdoor posts about Rose City Golf Course trail plan
• How it's nearly impossible to ride a reverse steering bike... and the challenges of super tall bikes.
• and more!

Rob Galanakis wants Portland Public Schools to see the forest and not just the trees outside classroom windows. His campaign for a seat on the PPS Board leans heavily on the idea that PPS goes about its business largely with its head in the sand while solutions to many problems can be found in the streets just beyond school grounds.

Galanakis, a co-founder of BikeBusPDX and software company owner who moved to Portland in 2014, biked over to the BikePortland Shed on Wednesday to share more about his vision for Portland’s troubled school district.

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A few days ago I sat down with Portland City Councilor Candace Avalos to have a conversation about policing and transportation. Avalos, who represents an area east of I-205 including Lents in southeast and the Portland Airport, is a first time member of city council, but she's no stranger to local politics. She was chair of the Citizen Review Committee, where she served for six years and became a well-known advocate for police accountability. Prior to being a city councilor she was executive director of Verde, an environmental justice nonprofit.

I met Councilor Avalos in a conference room at Midland Library on SE 122nd Avenue. The impetus for our conversation was the new Community Board for Police Accountability or CBPA, a new, high-profile venue for oversight of the Portland Police Bureau. More than just a committee, the new, 21-member board will have a significant budget, will hire its own investigators, and will issue binding decisions.

It's crucial that this new CBPA have at least one member who understands how transportation issues relate to public safety and policing. It's my hope this interview encourages someone in our audience to apply for one of the positions. You have until April 14th to get your applications in. Here's the link to the application.

We're back! Eva Frazier and I (Jonathan Maus) talked about all sorts of good stuff in this episode... from politics around I-5 Rose Quarter project to why the state's bike tax is so annoying.

Here's a handy outline and links to stuff we talked about:

• Bike shop banter: My new Metropolis Cycle tie-dye t-shirt, latest shop closures.
• Thoughts on the I-5 Rose Quarter vote at Metro Council and why I'm disappointed in Lynn Peterson and Duncan Hwang. And the bad optics of white urbanists opposing the project while Black Portlanders support it.
• Ladds 500 is next weekend! (4/12)
• Protest season is here. Hands Off Rally is Saturday, 4/5
• Eva shares here Saturdays in May ride series.
• Why hasn't PBOT revealed downtown Sunday Parkways route?
• How you can eat and drink your way through the week with Portland bike events.
• New segment of the Green Loop through North Park Blocks
• New bike lane coming to NE Prescott
• Convo with Candace Avalos and policing
• How'd he get there? I share my route from North Portland (Peninsula Park) to SE 122nd and Stark (Midland Library).
• Legislative transportation package draft is out. Why the bike tax is so annoying.
• April 26th is carfree 82nd Ave Parade and a Cycle Oregon Block Party at Baerlic Brewing in Southeast

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This Saturday, March 8th, Dave Guettler will celebrate the 30th anniversary of River City Bicycles, the business he started in 1995. In this conversation he shares stories about his early years in the bike industry, how and why he moved to Portland to open his dream shop, and much more.

Host: Jonathan Maus.

Recorded on March 4th in the BikePortland Shed in north Portland.

Links:

• Video: River City's shrine to Eddy Merckx
• Video: River City's Rooftop Bike People
• RiverCityBicycles.com