Category: Information
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How Visually Interesting Places Make Travel More Enjoyable
Have you ever heard someone say that they enjoyed living on campus without a car in their college days? Or someone raving about spending a week at Disney World or some fancy European city? Similarly, you might wonder why it is fun going downtown or traveling through a dense, walkable neighborhood. Let’s do a quick…
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How to Improve Safety Biking by Picking the Right Road Infrastructure
Some people automatically decide biking is not for them because of safety concerns. However, the same people often don’t think twice about the risks of taking a car to go to work, school, or run an errand multiple times a day. Being in a car can be one of the most dangerous actions we do…
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How to Choose the Right Daycare for a Biking Lifestyle
One key part to maintaining a biking lifestyle is being intentional in planning your daily routine. You need to identify businesses that you visit frequently and plan to stick with the same place for a while. This could include any type of business, such as grocery, gym, parks, hairdresser/barber, or childcare/ daycare. If you live…
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When Can You Bike with a Baby?
A new baby brings excitement as well as necessary adaptations to your daily routine. It might feel like biking is similar enough to driving a car where you should be able to strap your infant in a car seat and just go. However, there is general concern that repeated bumps of everyday road conditions on…
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Is it Acceptable to Bike on the Sidewalk?
There are times it just doesn’t feel safe biking on the road. There might be cars moving at fast speeds, limited or no bike lane, or other hazards. Our view is that you should always trust your intuition and don’t hesitate to take the sidewalk. In Oregon, it is generally allowable by law to ride…
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What you Should Know about Neighborhood Greenways
Neighborhood greenways are low-traffic, slow (typically 25mph or less) streets that prioritize walking and biking. Many times the greenways are on small neighborhood roads that are parallel to busier throughfares for automobiles. There are a couple key features of greenways in Portland, Oregon. You’ll see green wayfinding signs that highlight directions and distance to neighborhoods…
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Best Bike for Riding Around Town and How to Find It
If you are just starting out with biking, don’t waste your time on high-end bike websites or reviewing the “Top 10” retail article recommendations. In our non-gearhead opinion, spending $500+ on a shiny new bike with all the bells and whistles designed by marketers isn’t going to provide the motivation to take it outside and…
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Considerations of the Time Variable when Biking vs. Driving
It’s easy to jump to the conclusion that biking to daily tasks is too time consuming. To add to that, biking is slower speed than driving so it feels like travel is constrained for limited amount of time. We did a quick Travel Time app analysis to see which daily tasks (grocery, childcare/daycare, elementary school,…
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What is the 20-minute Neighborhood?
The 20-minute dinner. The 20-minute workout. Society is obsessed with getting things done in 20-minutes or less. It seems like an easy amount of time to squeeze in your busy day with time to spare. So what about the 20-minute neighborhood? It is a core concept described in Portland, Oregon’s 2009 Climate Action Plan where…
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Why Last Mile Biking?
“The Last Mile” is a term in logistics for the last stage of the delivery process where goods move from a transportation hub to the final destination. Although distances are short, it can be very inefficient and cost more than 50% of the total shipping costs. In the suburbs and less-dense city neighborhoods, we live…