The new frontier for bike infrastructure in Portland is the bike boulevard, a street where bicycle traffic is given priority and the result is a safer street for everyone.
Below are articles I've published on this topic.
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Posted on March 30th, 2010 at 7:30 am.
The new bike boulevard in Sellwood. There might be one coming to your neighborhood next. Will you have a say in what it looks like?(Photo © J. Maus)
The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation is in the midst of a massive public outreach effort to share their bike boulevard plans. If you want [...]
Posted on March 23rd, 2010 at 12:18 pm.
Detail of PBOT plans for a new bikeway through Ed Benedict Park in Southeast Portland.
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Posted on March 22nd, 2010 at 11:05 am.
MLK at Going looks a lot different now.-More photos below-(Photos © J. Maus)
The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation is moving forward on their Going Street Bicycle Boulevard project.
One of the centerpieces of the estimated $250,000 project is the crossing of MLK Jr. Blvd. For the uninitiated, MLK is a major north-south [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 at 4:38 pm.
Green streets; where bikes, fish and plants coexist.(Photo © J. Maus)
Portland Mayor Sam Adams has released details of his promise to find $20 million to "kickstart" funding of the 2030 Bike Plan. As expected, the money will come from the Bureau of Environmental Services budget and will be allocated toward "Green Streets projects [...]
Posted on March 4th, 2010 at 2:16 pm.
An impromptu group family ride led to realizations about the size and quality of our bikeways.(Photos © J. Maus)
A few weekends ago my girls and I, and several other families, planned to attend a local event. Since it was a sunny day, the location of the event was fairly close, and we all tend [...]
Posted on March 3rd, 2010 at 9:00 am.
New crossing treatment coming in the next few weeks to the intersection of N. Rosa Parks Way and Concord.(Graphic: PBOT)
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Posted on January 20th, 2010 at 11:46 am.
SE 52nd Avenue -- soon to be bike boulevard-ized.(Photo: PBOT)
This morning, Portland City Council formally accepted a $1.3 million grant for the 50s Bikeway, a project that was first identified as a priority in Portland's 1996 Bike Master Plan. Today's acceptance of the grant is a procedural formality (technically, it's the signing of an [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2009 at 11:21 am.
In our coverage of the new bike boulevard on Spokane Street in Sellwood many of you have shared questions and concerns about the new "channelizer" islands that have been installed. The islands are meant to channel motor vehicle and bike traffic into specific areas at intersections to avoid pinch-point conflicts, but several readers have [...]
Posted on December 22nd, 2009 at 10:58 am.
New "channelizing islands" at SE 7th and Spokane.(Photo: Alaya Wyndham-Price)
On Saturday, the City of Portland hosted a party and bike ride on SE Spokane Street in Sellwood to celebrate the opening of a new bike boulevard. The project's significance goes way beyond the speed bumps, "channelizers", and other infrastructure changes and marks what the [...]
Posted on December 3rd, 2009 at 3:00 pm.
Detail of new "channelizing islands" recently installed on SE Spokane St.(Photos © Adams Carroll)
The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation is just weeks away from unveiling one of the most important bike-related infrastructure projects in years. Their new bike boulevard on SE Spokane Street in Sellwood is the first of their "next generation" bike [...]
Posted on December 3rd, 2009 at 9:37 am.
PBOT has made major safety improvements to this crossing (SE 13th and Spokane).(Photo © J. Maus)
The Sellwood Bike Boulevard project is nearing completion and the neighborhood wants to celebrate. The Sellwood Moreland Improvement League (SMILE) will host a bike ride and party on Saturday December 19th to welcome the City's first "next generation" bike boulevard.
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Posted on October 22nd, 2009 at 10:03 am.
Plan drawing for crossing of Spokane at SE 13th. Notice new refuge island, semi-diverter (allowing bicycles onto Spokane but not cars), and curb extension. Red boxes are places where on-street parking will no longer be allowed. - Download Spokane Bike Boulevard project details (400K PDF) -
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Posted on September 3rd, 2009 at 3:47 pm.
PBOT's Greg Raisman shared a preview of Going plans at our recent Get Together.(Photos © J. Maus)
In case you haven't heard, the City of Portland's Bureau of Transportation is smack dab in the middle of a major campaign to create 15 miles of new bike boulevards in Portland.
We've covered the projects and the process behind [...]
Posted on July 22nd, 2009 at 4:49 pm.
"Bike Flags" are one of several concepts the city hopes will help identify SE Clinton as a bike priority street.
The City of Portland has shared more of the design elements they're hoping to bring to Clinton Street as part of their Clinton Street Bike Boulevard Enhancement Project.
Earlier this month, we shared a few peeks of [...]
Posted on July 13th, 2009 at 1:30 pm.
This "bicycle mandala" graphic is one of the treatments PBOT is proposing to install in an intersection along SE Clinton Street to make it clear to people in cars that they are on a bicycle boulevard.
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Posted on July 2nd, 2009 at 11:54 am.
City is rolling out public outreach process for more bike boulevards.(Photo © J. Maus)
The City of Portland is about to embark on a series of open houses to inform neighborhoods about their bike boulevard plans.
The Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) is busy planning and designing 15 miles of new, low-traffic streets throughout the metro [...]
Posted on May 19th, 2009 at 11:31 am.
U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer has made his transportation project requests public.(Photo © J. Maus)
[Via Mapes on Politics]
U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer has made his list of "High Priority" transportation projects public, and several of them are for bike-related projects in and around the Portland metro area. According to Blumenauer, the list was created to "ensure [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2009 at 1:38 pm.
Crossing Spokane at SE 13th.(Photos © J. Maus)
Last night at the headquarters of the Sellwood-Moreland neighborhood association, about 50 residents showed up to learn more about the City of Portland's plans to create a bicycle boulevard on SE Spokane Street.
They got a chance to see some of the latest innovations in the city's toolbox for [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2009 at 9:40 am.
15 miles of Portland streets willget calmer, safer, and more enjoyable for bikes in the coming months.(Photo © J. Maus)
At a subcommittee meeting before the monthly Bicycle Advisory Committee meeting in City Hall last night, the Portland Bureau of Transportation's Traffic Safety Program Manager Mark Lear and Traffic Safety Specialist Greg Raisman outlined details on [...]
Posted on November 19th, 2008 at 8:41 am.
A banner for the BTA's campaign seenat an event this summer.(Photos © J. Maus)
Back in August, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) announced that Going Street would be the focus of their first major effort to create a new bike boulevard in Portland.
Since then, BTA staffer Emily Gardner has been busy shoring up neighborhood support for [...]
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