Home for the holidays

Another atmospheric river begins in the Pacific Northwest. It's a good day to let someone else drive. My bike is on bus the CAT bus to Portland. #transit

Forming a mental map is a critical aspect of independent mobility for children. The club members learn this subversively as we take walking and biking adventures around town.

"When the movie was over, I thanked Rob and surprised the hell out of myself by giving him a hug... I went into the nearest men’s bathroom and sat in a stall until I got myself under control. Nostalgia can be dangerous when it’s up close." Forever an inspirational🎥 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

Bring winter on!

The #TransitDog of the day is living his best life on a CAT bus.💜

Absolute banger comments about the need for bus lanes on 82nd Avenue from TriMet board member Tyler Frisbee at their meeting Wednesday. I clipped it up for your convenience youtu.be/5UwEepFnoYI

I love when puppies 🐶 ride transit. This guy was living his best life on CAT 😺 bus taking in the views of the Columbia Gorge.

Is it weird that I want to find my 16yo daughter a fake ID so she can go dancing with me? So excited for the 80s dance party tomorrow night at Revolution Hall. www.videodanceattack.com/events

3 ✨ secrets to success in Safe Routes to School: 1- get kids in the street 2- cheap demonstrations 3- free bikes for kids Please steal these ideas. #saferoutestoschool

✍️Help shape the safe 🚶🏽‍♀️🚲👩‍🦼routes to the new Hood River-White Salmon Bridge. 3 cities. 2 miles. 1 river. A new bridge bringing us together — explore the plans and share your voice. Plans and survey-> www.walkandrollhoodrivercounty.com/hood-river-b... #ColumbiaGorge #HoodRiver

15 year tradition of procuring a 🎄 Christmas Tree by bike ✔️ The 1942 @newyorker.com cover was way ahead of its time! #treebybike #treebybike2025 #urbanarrow #carryshitolympics #cargobike #ebike

"Children in the community with light traffic created far more detailed maps...of their neighborhood street network that practically could have been handed to people asking for directions," Bruce Appleyard-2017. ☝🏼from #LifeAfterCars, now a bestselling book 📖 in America by @thewaroncars.bsky.social.

Kids of all abilities, whether they are in a wheelchair, skateboard, rollerskate, bike or walk, should have a choice to create their own play without their parents. That's why I do what I do. @getaroundcabooltur.bsky.social podcast: getaroundcaboolture.au/megan-ramey-...

"We don't have an E-bike problem, we have an E-moto problem" Marin County is the birthplace for Safe Routes to School. You now have to be 16 to ride a class 2 E-bike in Marin County and they are serving as a 4-year pilot for California statewide reform. Article: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/m...

Black Friday begins 🍻

How Megan Ramey is using bikes to spark independence for kids, calmer streets, and stronger communities. A powerful rethink of how we move and live. Listen here: tinyurl.com/tnkj97bs @bikabout.com #KidsOnBikes #SchoolStreet #KidCyclists #BikeBus #SafeStreets #ActiveTransportation #Podcast

Greetings from beautiful Bend. We are grateful for spending our 20th annual Friendsgiving dating back to Madison life. It's pretty amazing that we all ended up in Oregon by way of MA, MO and CA.

This ADA kayak and paddle board launch in Bend's Miller's Landing is super cool and right off the major bike route. Now I have a goal to do a float and bike shuttle this summer.

"It's forced conformity. That's what's killing the kids. That's the real monster," Eddie Munson ❤️ Bike Bus kids defy conformity, thanks to @coachbalto.bsky.social. Season 5 @strangerthings.bsky.social, let's go! #bikebus

Stranger Things #BikeBus was unveiled last weekend in anticipation of the series finale roll-out beginning on Thanksgiving 🦃 🧵 on why this partnership is pure magic ✨ 1/x

Seeing recent threads from @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social and @bikabout.com about e-bikes (or e-dirt bikes as the case may be), I thought I would throw in my thoughts as a parent of a now-teenager and pre-teen that just moved to a safe place to ride a bike from a not-safe place.

I’m glad to live in a great part of Minneapolis where kids traveling alone is okay. Didn’t start for us regularly until 2nd and 5th but now a year later they are pretty competent on their own.

"Can [your 1st grader] travel alone in the neighborhood (4-8 blocks) to the store, school, playground or to a friend’s home.” Psychologist, Louise Bates Ames, book "Your 6YO: Loving and Defiant" in '79, on childhood development. Life After Cars continues to surprise me. @thewaroncars.bsky.social

For our final Ruby Bridges walk to school day at Parkdale, we gathered under a looming Mount Hood for hot chocolate and walked through some spectacular golden light. And look at those awesome @cleverhood.bsky.social jackets for our rain library thanks to @saferoutespartners.bsky.social!

7 years ago, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and promptly handed her to her mom. Happy Birthday to my star, Penelope. She gifted me my greatest life experience including a 2nd opportunity to bike while pregnant! Story: www.bikabout.com/blog/biking-...

Before the walk: "I don't know you" End of walk: holding hands Walking and Bike Buses build community FAST! This goes out to all our fellow leaders out there and the relationships they have with their students. You are making memories.

5am came quickly this morning, but just like magic, the kids and our panoramic beauty of the Columbia Gorge wakes me up really quickly. Happy Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day.

Every year, my city has the landscaping swapped in our planter protected bike lane to reflect the current season. We just switched from autumn mums to a festive holiday theme, and it adds so much enjoyment to my commute. Infrastructure can be beautiful at the human scale.

4 people radicalized by parenting. Last night's Life After Cars book talk at Powell's was another evening of church. Not surprising, "Cars Ruin Childhood" is my favorite chapter bc of the effectiveness of kids' voices and subversive joy. @thewaroncars.bsky.social @coachbalto.bsky.social

Love to see that Radicals shirt out there on such awesome people. 📸 @bikabout.com

See you tonight!

New Post: Katie Wilson is Seattle’s Next Mayor seattletransitblog.com/2025/11/13/k...

Team Portland turnt up! Thanks to @bikeportland for bringing all our people to Bike Happy Hour. It felt like homecoming for transportation nerds. It was an overdue joy meet Doug and Sarah of @thewaroncars.bsky.social!

Off to Portland for a very special Bike Happy Hour.

What other walk to school day features slumbering cows 🐄? Oh, how our families need peace and community right now and #RubyBridges is the perfect event for it. #hoodrivercounty

Woot!!!

"Get your hands dirty and drop the screens and get obsessed with something, get passionate. We all want to share in what you might create." -Jack White Freedom looks like kids on bikes, feeling the music, creating their own world.

A beautiful and tragic episode about the selfishness brought on by the auto industry. Too much for me to take in one sitting. My heart breaks for what was robbed from America

Happy Ruby Bridges Walk to School week! You will be seeing a lot of fun videos to every version of Blackbird 🎶 that I can find including the OG by the Beatles here.

Tern is a great E-bike for youth: + Carries stuff + Legally designed to carry a friend + Integrated lights + Class 1, pedal-assist Parent's E-bike buyer's guide: www.bikabout.com/ebike-guide-...

We don’t have a youth e-bike problem — we have a youth e-moto problem.

144 comments I struck a chord with this @bikeportland.org advocating for Oregon's youth. This would be a game changer for moms like me who unfairly bear the burden of kid shuttling and for t(w)eens who need to learn resiliency and independence the fun way. bikeportland.org/2025/11/05/o...

Everyone cares about transportation. This makes studying it really fun, but also means everyone (including experts) is in danger of confusing their opinions for facts. You would not believe how many comments in an academic talk about walking and cycling have to do with regulating e-bikes.

"Transportation is a core life skill. We should be teaching it from K-12" Recording of Best Practices in #Ebike Ed webinar by @saferoutespartners.bsky.social including Alison Dewey of @bikeleague.org and Gwen Froh of Marin County is 👇🏼 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2p8y2ecx #saferoutestoschool

After 2 amazing months of showing and teaching bike joy and confidence in their PE class, I am taking my annual well-being waterfall ride, from Troutdale to Cascade Locks. Highlights of Fall 🍁 +2 elementary, 2 middle, 1 highschool +700 students +30 learned to ride a bike +13 bike field trips

"When asked to illustrate a poster for Ruby Bridges day, I wanted to ensure I crafted a memorable and original image that spoke to the weight and lasting impact of her momentous accomplishment. As an affluent male of european descent, I put myself behind showing how we can follow in her footsteps"

"It’s overdue for Oregon to honor its proud bike heritage — one that fosters resiliency, health, and mobility choice — and extend it to our youth, who arguably need it now more than ever." @bikeportland.org Opinion: Let Oregon kids ride Class 1 e-bikes 🔗 bikeportland.org/2025/11/05/o...

My 2 secrets to success: 1) getting kids in the street 2) centering their safety in cheap demonstrations Today I presented on 3 successful Quick Builds or demonstrations that Hood River County has done. Here are my slides with fun videos: docs.google.com/presentation...

@bikabout.com Megan Ramey cites @tomflood.bsky.social's Revelo in the Quick Builds Guide training from WSDOT: "Quick Builds build community trust and give our leaders political courage to champion safe streets and make larger investments."