What's your vision of sustainable transportation and how to make it happen for Portland and the greater world? How do you get around in Portland in and in the greater world? What are you working on? Please join Portland's first Car-free happy hour to discuss, mingle, and eat and drink.

When: 2nd Thursday of each month (First is March 12), 5-7pm

Where: Roots Organic Brewing Company, 1520 SE 7th Ave, Portland, OR

Who's invited: Bicyclists, transit riders, pedestrians, motorists looking for other options, carpoolers, activists, consultants, nerds, journalists, public agency employees, politicians, neighbors, and friends

What: Car-free happy hour is an informal venue to mingle participate in a social exchange of information, ideas, and connections. Let's put the ingredients together and see what happens.

This ride will be a no-drop group ride for people attending RailsConf, local Rubyists who'd like to join in, and any assorted hangers-on who can put up with a bunch of nerds on bikes.

Check out the webpage for meetup and route details.

Thanks to Luke Francl for "driving" this!

Come hack for transportation! Help make apps using TriMet data even more awesome and accessible to more community members in Portland.

The TriMet Hackathon will have three areas of focus: software localization, TriMet's new APIs, and Active Transportation using OpenTripPlanner, OpenStreetMap, in conjunction with Metro's Bike There program.

Please join the TriMet Developers, Code 4 Portland, Skip Newberry, Chris Smith, Brandon Martin Anderson, Ed Groth, Chuck & Erica Lauer Vose, Marc Charbonneau... and many others.

Escape from Black Friday and enter Technicolor Friday, a bike ride celebrating the whole spectrum of motion color signals! Experience starry blue whirl with luminous orange, dragon-green curve around warm amber, and ruby red sparkle next to amethyst violet. Build friendships and get exercise, all the while painting your radiant awesomeness on the city skyline!

Ride departs at 7:30 PM from Portland Art Museum

Come early and meet with us at 5:00 PM to tour the Museum, which is offering a special price of $5 (we'll be inside, at the entrance).

Submit music to our collaborative Spotify list: http://spoti.fi/1O0z1ww

Route length is approximately 6 miles

Ride ends at Green Dragon (928 SE 9th Ave)

The shift website (https://www.shift2bikes.org/) is entirely volunteer operated! Come out for a 5 mile social bike ride with the Shift Calendar Crew, stay for a beer at a watering hole near the start point, and learn about our tech stack and how you can contribute & help us connect Portland area bike funthusiasts on the web and beyond. The ride will end within a couple miles of the start point.

Learn more:

• https://www.shift2bikes.org/pages/get-involved/
• https://github.com/shift-org