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January 28, 2011
KXL Radio: B-Line delivers to City of Portland

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

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December 21, 2010
Season's Greetings from B-Line

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 […]

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December 21, 2010
Season’s Greetings from B-Line!

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 […]

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December 6, 2010
Oregon Business Journal: Portland embraces cargo bike’s ability to deliver the goods

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, […]

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December 6, 2010
Grist: Bicycle freight: thinking outside the box truck

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 […]

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November 18, 2010
Break the Cycle of Hunger

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 […]

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November 18, 2010
Better than you think

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 […]

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November 18, 2010
Portland Mercury: B-shares

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 […]

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November 17, 2010
Wend: B-line Brings Turkeys By Bike This Thanksgiving

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 […]

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November 16, 2010
Doing Business the Portland Way

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 […]

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