By Catherine Covington Here at RSF, we are always thrilled to hear about for-profit and non-profit enterprises taking innovative actions to catalyze social and environmental change. During this year’s Seed Fund grantee selection process, B-Line Sustainable Urban Delivery quickly caught the attention of the RSF staff selection committee. Take a look at why we are so thrilled […]
With its restaurant-style dining and $1.25 meals, Sisters of the Road Cafe has long been the homiest nonprofit grub spot for downtown Portland's hungry. Now, thanks to a recent partnership with B-Line: Sustainable Urban Delivery and Whole Foods Market, the cafe's freshly transformed menu also makes it the healthiest. Call it Portlandia at its best. […]
The B-Line delivery service in Portland isn't your typical bike messenger service, which is fitting in bike-crazy Portland. Some might say it's even a little... weird. This is no high-speed messenger service with hipster riders whipping through traffic on single-speed custom bikes. B-Line couriers pedal electrically-assisted three-wheeled trikes with a capacity to haul up to […]
Elected leaders in the Portland area like to try to save the world through grand, sweeping gestures. In recent years, they have promised to switch every municipal office to wind power, force gas stations that sell diesel to offer bio-diesel and cut the county's carbon emissions by 80 percent. This focus on the environment is […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
