Oregon Active Transportation Summit

Location Details:
Meet outside Smith Memorial Student Union at 10:00 a.m., depart by 10:15 a.m.
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM – Meet & travel
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM – Bike safety education & street mural project
11:45 AM – 12:15 PM – Bike bus wayfinding pilot & vision clearance
12:15 PM – 1:00 PM – Bike back
Here's the route! (about 17 miles roundtrip with three small hills)

Description:
This mobile workshop will showcase how three pillars of the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School programming—infrastructure, engagement, and education—complement each other to help Portland youth become confident bicyclists for transportation and recreation.

Participants will get on bikes and enjoy a ride down several of Portland’s beloved neighborhood greenways—low traffic, low-speed streets where cyclists can comfortably take the traffic lane. During the ride, they will visit several recently completed capital projects and learn about bike buses at Portland schools, including how PBOT, Metro, and school districts support this grassroots effort. Our trip will showcase a recent bike bus wayfinding pilot featuring wearable signs, pavement markings, and street signs.

We’ll discuss how bike buses support school attendance, climate goals, and student health and safety. The ride will stop at Rose City Park Elementary, where participants can observe bike safety education in action. Students learn skills for awareness and bike handling, as well as rules of the road so that they can travel independently as cyclists. Participants might even get quizzed on their bike safety knowledge!

Location Details:
Meet outside Smith Memorial Student Union at 1:15 p.m., departs at 1:30 p.m.

Description:
This is an interactive tour that combines walking and the streetcar!  We leave from PSU campus and explore the myriad Portland neighborhoods that are connected by our convenient streetcar loop, including the Pearl District, the Alphabet District and the Eastside mural district.  Learn how easy it is to see so much of the inner east and west side of the river by streetcar.

Location Details:
1:15 p.m. - Meet outside PSU Smith Memorial Student Union, for a 0.2-mile/4 minute walk/roll to ride in style on a chartered C-TRAN bus!

Capacity: 40

Description:
On this mobile workshop, we’ll visit key stations on C-TRAN’s Mill Plain BRT. On its way to three years in service, this award-winning BRT corridor extends nearly 10-miles from downtown and eastside Vancouver. Ever wonder how and why the stations look and feel the way they do? Come up close with us to experience the platform design details, accessibility features, bike/ped integration, and bus and station amenities. We’ll dive into how the details you see today started on paper in 2017. C-TRAN’s Director of Planning & Service Delivery will share how this second BRT corridor, serving 780k passengers in 2025, came to life and how it’s integrated with C-TRAN’s full system. We’ll see you on the Vine!

Location Details: Meet outside Smith Memorial Student Union (on the west side, by the Park Blocks/farmers market side)

Description:
Come hear what the noise is all about! Multnomah County Environmental Health has partnered with OSU to map sound levels across Portland, and now it’s your turn to join the investigation. In this active mobile workshop, we’ll dive into the intersection of place, noise, and public health. Choose your mode—foot, bike, or transit—and hit the streets around OATS to capture real-time noise data. We’ll reconvene at Smith Memorial Union to compare our findings, discuss the environmental drivers of noise, and brainstorm strategies to improve our local soundscape.

Exclusive for Street Trust Members
Not a member yet? Join up for just $5/month here to attend and support active transportation in Oregon!

Location: At The Street Trust's Office in the Public Will Building - 733 SW Oak St, Portland, OR 97205
Refreshments: Beer, wine, NA drinks and light bites

Meet The Street Trust's Board, our new Interim Executive Director, Lindsay Huber, and learn about how your donations are making an impact for non-drivers and building the movement for safe, complete streets. We’ll provide an update on our programs and advocacy in the past year including:
- What happened in the 2025 and 2026 state legislative sessions. Our Legislative Consultant, Thomas Baker, will share his direct experience and outline what we need to do to reverse course in the 2027 long session.
- Program updates on Ride2Own, WeBike, Oregon Friendly Driver, and other education efforts.

We are so grateful for your support, thank you!

Questions about membership or the debrief? Please email [email protected].

Meet outside Smith Memorial Student Union at 4:45 p.m., ride at 5:00 p.m.
Arrive at Clinton Street Plaza at 5:30 p.m.

Join the bike bus from OATS to eateries next to Clinton Street Theater after Thursday sessions end. Three miles. Lucky Horseshoe and Dots Cafe have happy hour pricing on food until 6:00 p.m.

Still need your $8 ticket to the PK Slam? Purchase here.

Bring a bike lock! Bike parking is at staples in the area.