It has been a busy month for Bend Bikes. We hosted our first Kidical Mass ride with nearly 200 participants, led a bike tour of sustainable buildings for the Environmental Center Green tour, educated students about our organization at the OSU Beaver Block Party, hosted a social ride to Bevel Brewing, chimed in at the Neighborhood Connections open house, and received the Hero Award from the Deschutes County BPAC.
In the midst of so many issues affecting our city –homelessness, housing affordability, trees, natural gas appliances and electrification, city expansion or densification, dark skies, and wildfire protection and evacuation–one …
We see it in the news everyday, fatalities and serious injuries on our roads caused by speeding drivers. It is a nationwide problem, but also one that is felt acutely …
The Week Without Driving, October 1-8, is a national event meant to focus attention on the transportation needs of the over 30% of those in our country who are involuntary …
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 …
Every time Bend debates a road project, the conversation defaults to the same instinctual reaction: If traffic is bad, add lanes. It’s an intuitive idea, but it’s also one of the most expensive mistakes a growing city can make.
Skip the hassle of finding parking and waiting in traffic and turn your Thursday evening journey to Drake park into a leisurely adventure. Rolling up to Munch & Music on …
In this month’s newsletter we highlight the intersection of design, housing and transportation with a recap of our YIMBY social and an article on the Happy Cities presentation hosted by Build a Better Bend. We also add another favorite route to our popular routes to the new Bend Central Library.
For those on the southwest side of town who are looking to bike to/from the central library, check out the route below!
Building Advocacy Capacity in Central Oregon This past month Bend Bikes supported and participated in three bike buses and a walk and roll event at local schools, hosted a social …
It was a long haul, but construction is finally complete on the Portland–Wall–Olney corridor. Now that the dust has settled, we can start to see the project in its full context—and overall, the results are encouraging…
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.
I’m a bit compulsive and have been conducting an uncontrolled experiment for the last 10 years to find out if I could live without a car…
We’ve received a lot of questions about the best low-stress bike routes to reach the library from Bend’s west side. So this month, we are continuing the theme from last month with a new route to the Central Library, this time from the west…
Join Bend Bikes for social rides to Bevel brewing, the third Saturday of every month from May through October! Come on out for a casual, social ride to connect with …
