Election 2026 – City Council Candidates
How we’re able to move around in Bend has an enormous influence on our quality of life. Our City Council controls the philosophy used by the engineering department to build …
Oregon’s 1971 Bike Bill: A Law Worth Fighting For
More than half a century ago, a Republican state legislator from Jacksonville, Oregon, named Don Stathos, was run off the road while riding a tandem bicycle to Medford with his daughter. Gravel flew. Cars swept past. He and his kids had to swerve to survive a routine ride.
Out of that frustrating, dangerous moment emerged one of the most forward-thinking pieces of transportation legislation in American history.
Election 2024 City Council Candidates
In November the City of Bend will be electing new city councilors. We sent all of the candidates a questionnaire to find out their thoughts on some issues related to …
Summer bike happenings
Safe Streets for All People Bend Bikes and several partners: the City of Bend, the Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization, Central Oregon Landwatch, and the LPS Family Fund, are bringing the …
Election Season, Midtown Crossings Updates, Road Diets, and Social Connectivity by Bike…
This month we are highlighting a whole bunch of stuff about what City Council and mayoral candidates vision for our bikey future, Midtown Pedestrian and Bicycle Crossings updates, road diets, …
2022 Bend City Council and Mayoral Election Questionnaire
2022 Council Candidates Position #4 (Council)Bill OlsenKaron JohnsonErlin TaylorBarb Campbell Position #5 (Council)Sean SipeAriel Mendez Position #6 (Council)Mike RileyJulia BrownRick Johns Position #7 (Mayor)Chris PiperMelanie Kebler It’s election season and …
2022 Strategery and the Kitchen Sink
Oh boy, this is a long one! After taking some time to reset after the winter break and all the work that went into our bike map launch, spring is …
Call to Action: Final Push for the Transportation Bond Oversight Committee Recommendations!
It has been a long road since Bend Bikes endorsed the GO bond over a year ago. We had a lot of complicated feelings about the package of projects, but …
TBOC Recommendations to Council – Call for Support and Other November News!
With cold crisp days settling in, it’s time to break out the studded bike tires (we love the Schwalbe Ice Spiker Pros for those truly snowy, icey, slushy days), balaclavas, …
Call to Action: Revised Draft Transportation Bond Project Sequencing Feedback!
City staff spent the last month creating more readable and robust materials breaking down the rationale behind the draft transportation GO bond project sequencing for the first 5 years of …
DLCD Call to Action, Bond Project Sequencing Feedback, Fall E-Bike Joy, Behind the Scenes of Bend Bikes, and Frankenbells!
It’s time to put fenders back on bikes and start splashing through puddles and it’s almost time to dig out the studded bike tires for winter commuting! While we wait …
Go Bond Draft Project List: East-West Connectivity or Bust
Aerial rendering of Hawthorne Overcrossing from Bend’s downtown (at left) to midtown (at right). Courtesy of Ashley Vance Engineering and 10 Over Studio. For years, Bendites have bemoaned the fact …
DPL Bike Repair Kits, Draft Bond Project List, DLCD Listening Sessions, and Bike Parking!
With glorious rain, clear skies, and crisp fall air, we are frantically trying to ride our bikes as much as possible before winter sets in! We have a flurry of …
So many August bikey things!
While August is a notoriously hard month to get anything done with frantic vacations taken chasing green dots on the AQI map, Bend Bikes welcomes new board member Maryam Mirahmadi. …
Join Bend Bikes at the Wilson Corridor Open House, TBOC updates, and other July news!
July brings some bittersweet changes to our board as we bid farewell to Morgan Crowell in August. Over the last 3 years, Morgan transformed our signature events like Bike the …