(Photo © J. Maus)
The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation has just issued an advisory to warn “the bicycling public” (that has a much better ring to it than “bicyclists”) of a construction project that will close a popular bicycle boulevard.
According to spokesperson Cheryl Kuck, this is the City’s first ever bicycle-specific traffic advisory. “I’m sending out a regular traffic advisory, too, but we thought we’d get the word out specifically to our bike media to alert bicyclists to the closure.”
I love it.
Here’s the advisory:
CITY OF PORTLAND BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION
BICYCLE TRAFFIC ADVISORY
Contact: Cheryl E. Kuck, 503-823-5552
Street Closure for Pavement Repair and Repaving SE Clinton Street between 49th and 50th Avenues
(PORTLAND, OR) – The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation advises the bicycling public of a street closure affecting a bicycle boulevard. SE Clinton Street, between 49th and 50th Avenues, will be closed for pavement repair and repaving beginning Friday, October 30, and continuing through Thursday, November 5.
- What: Street closure for pavement repair and repaving
- Where: SE Clinton Street, between 49th and 50th Avenues
- When: Weekday daytime closures from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. beginning Friday, October 30, and continuing through Thursday, November 5. Extent of closure may be somewhat longer, weather depending.
Detour for cyclists: Sidewalk will remain open through the street closure area. Bicyclists may use sidewalk if riding slowly and carefully and yielding to pedestrians (see Oregon Revised Statutes 814.410 regarding operation of a bicycle on a sidewalk).
And here’s a map of the detour:
It’s great to see this type of official communication and acknowledgment of bicycle traffic from the City.
Thanks for reading.
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I wish they do this for the SE Ankeny and SE 16th routes that are under sporadic closures due to the greenstreet improvements and the Burnside Couplet work.
AT LAST!! Now I feel like SOMEONE!
patrickz: if you were someone they would have sent you the advisory instead of J Maus.
I kid!
Wow, this is right outside my front door! Pretty cool to read about it here tonight instead of encountering it tomorrow morning…
It’s Nice that bike traffic is being treated as traffic. But with all this equality there could be a down side: unmarked bicycle cops, metered bike stalls, mega-bailouts for failed bike manufactures and required minimal miles-per-calorie standards for road bikes…
😀 you funny marcus!
I thought is was bad to get pulled over by an unmarked El Camino… now, I have to worry about undercover cops on a Manga? I wonder why the police haven’t tried that tactic yet for Zoomboombers? Who would expect a guy in a rabbit suit riding a trike could be a cop? Guess they would have to draw straws at the precinct to see who got that gig.
100% agree with Paul here, Ankeny is treated like the ugly stepsister of bike boulevards too often. Also, how about extending that to 7th/Sandy? Lots of us were having a really hard time making that crossing today… the right lane is blocked off just south of the difficult intersection at 11th.
The Woodward section of the bike boulevard could use repaving too. It’s at least as bad as that block between 49th & 50th. But good to see some projects moving forward. The closure shouldn’t even impact my commute, I go through there before the 7am start – and after the 4pm end – of the closure period.
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I feel like part of a “bicycling public”.