KXL Radio's Barbara Voight interviews Franklin Jones on B-Line's partnership with the City of Portland and Office Depot. Listen: B-Line 1 B-Line 2
KXL Radio's Barbara Voight interviews Franklin Jones on B-Line's partnership with the City of Portland and Office Depot. Listen: B-Line 1 B-Line 2
Season’s Greetings from B-Line! I have always looked forward to the dawning of a new year and the opportunity to reflect on the accomplishments of the year behind. This year is no exception. In 2010, while the local and national economy stumbled, B-Line continued to grow and to positively impact our community. Now with several […]
Season’s Greetings from B-Line! I have always looked forward to the dawning of a new year and the opportunity to reflect on the accomplishments of the year behind. This year is no exception. In 2010, while the local and national economy stumbled, B-Line continued to grow and to positively impact our community. Now with several […]
Joel Grover worked at the Bike Gallery in Portland for more than 20 years before he decided to set up Splendid Cycles on his own in May, selling nothing but cargo bikes. Limiting your shop to extra-long bicycles built to haul hundreds of pounds of groceries, tools and/or kids may seem like a strange niche, […]
Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, is planning something that, at first glance, is unbelievable. He wants to ban semi trucks from the city. The plan is to establish depots at the outskirts of London where goods could be transferred from giant, rumbling trucks (or lorries, as they say over there) to smaller vehicles for […]
Dear Friends, As the holidays approach, more Oregonians than ever are in need of food assistance. Yet, in Portland alone, over 200,000 tons of usable food will be sent to the landfill this year. Much of this surplus food goes to waste because there is no affordable, established method for transporting the food from its […]
Dear Friends, You already know we’re focused on more than our bottom line – that we not only offer great delivery and advertising solutions, but we also create value for our local community and our planet. You may not know we’re part of a community of businesses that meet the same high standards we do […]
ROBERTO CASANUEVA and I are loitering outside Whole Foods in the Pearl District, spending the morning doing the most "Portland" task imaginable: loading up his bike with 150 pounds of organic food to deliver to homeless shelters. But it's not just any bike! It's a European-made electric-assist cargo tricycle, complete with a custom-made giant box […]
If you live in Portland, chances are you’ve at least seen a B-line delivery trike equipped with a big, snappy yellow cargo box perched behind its rider. These pedal-powered wonders began zipping through the streets of PDX in February 2009, partnering with local businesses to take over their “close-in” delivery needs. Since then, B-line has […]
I am often asked how it is to do business in Portland. In response, I immediately begin talking about the collaborative nature of business in this city. There is a sense of opportunity and of building an even better place that pervades so many conversations associated with our business landscape and I am constantly amazed […]