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The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation completed the installation of another on-street bike parking corral last week.
This one -- on SE 28th at Pine in front of Ken's Artisan Pizza and Bamboo Sushi -- is the 20th on-street bike parking facility installed by the City and one of three that have appeared in recent weeks on the SE 28th corridor (there is also a corral one block north at Ankeny and another on Glisan at 28th).
Check out more photos in the gallery or watch the slideshow below: (more...)
Several readers have alerted me to a mysterious sign posted on a vacant storefront on SW 3rd that reads, "Coming Soon... Portland Bike Station".
I made a few calls and couldn't find out much about it. One source did confirm for me that it is legit and that something is in the works. I'll have more as soon as I find out.
One other thing I've confirmed is that it won't be a Bikestation, as in the officially trademarked name of the non-profit organization that has its branded facilities in Seattle, Santa Barbara, Long Beach, and other cities. (more...)
When students and staff arrive at the campus of Benjamin Franklin High School in Southeast Portland (5405 SE Woodward), they're greeted with an important message: Bikes are respected, encouraged, and accommodated for.
The message isn't something you read on a poster. It's implied — by rows of perfectly spaced staple racks installed on concrete slabs surrounded by attractive cobblestones and located smack dab near the main entrance of the school. (A roof would make this parking perfect, and sources say that's in the works).
There are 18 staple racks, room for 36 bikes. With the generous spacing between them, cargo bikes, bikes with trailers, recumbents and even freak bikes have plenty of breathing room (for themselves and their owners). (more...)
Yesterday morning I headed over to the Portland State University campus to check out the four different double-decker bike racks the university is considering for two soon to be constructed secure on-campus bike parking garages.
The racks will be set up daily through this Friday from 10am to 3pm at SW Broadway and Montgomery. Members of the public are invited to come try out the racks with their own bikes, or with a sample bike at the site, ask questions, and fill out a survey ranking each of the four racks in intuitiveness, function, security, and appearance.
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Today, crews from the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation installed 27 new staple racks at the corner of NW 13th and NW Johnson in the Pearl District. The new racks -- located adjacent to the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) -- were drilled into place in the former location of three automobile parking spaces. When students return to class next week, there will be space for 54 bikes in this new parking area (not to mention many other racks nearby).
The project is being paid for out of PBOT's bike parking fund, and it is one of four "bike corrals" Mayor Adams has promised to roll out in his first 100 days in office. (more...)
Staffers at the Bicycle Transportation Alliance offices on NW 5th Avenue were surprised when they noticed work crews removing the bike racks outside their offices on Friday morning of last week.
When I rode by later that evening, all that was left of three staple racks were holes in the bricks (see photo below). With a lack of bike parking capacity already an issue on the new Portland Mall, why would existing racks be removed?
The answer has to do with design standards -- the same standards that I reported on back in January. (more...)
Mayor Adams can tick an item off his list of promises to fulfill in his first 100 days as Mayor.
Adams' office has announced the first of four new bike corrals that will go up around Portland in the coming weeks. The new racks are coming to NW 13th street adjacent to the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in the Pearl District. Slated for installation on Tuesday of next week, the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation plans to install 13 new staple racks in the place of two motor vehicle parking spaces. (more...)
TriMet is counting on about $60 million in federal cash as part of the stimulus bill. That slice of money cannot go to operations and must be spent on transit infrastructure and preventative maintenance projects.
TriMet's list of projects under consideration for that funding currently totals about $127 million. To help Uncle Sam make up his mind about where to put the money, TriMet is encouraging folks to make public comments in support of projects they care about.
On that list is a project titled, Bike Parking Improvements. According to TriMet, the money would go toward: (more...)
The City of Portland has installed 90 stainless steel staple racks as part of the downtown transit mall project.
The racks -- designed by architectural firm ZGF -- are quite different from the standard blue staple racks. For starters, they're made from a much more durable (and expensive) stainless steel material. The racks are also made from flat steel stock, compared to the round tube of the existing blue ones. (more...)
Reader Stephen Upchurch sent us an email today wondering if a threatening note he got about bike parking was legit.
Stephen locked to a gas pipe in front of the Brew House & Tower Building in Northwest Portland last week and when he returned to his bike he found this note: (more...)
Widmer Brothers Brewing is well-known for their Hefeweizen beer and for being one of the nation's pioneering craft brewers. But perhaps less well known is their commitment to the growing number of their 150 Portland employees who ride their bikes to work.
At their North Portland headquarters (on Russell Street off of N. Interstate Ave), Widmer just finished up a major expansion project. Along with more beer storage space, offices, and keg-filling capacity, they also added an entire building devoted to bike parking. (more...)
Now you'll be able to park your bike at the carfree evening planned for viewing the lights on Peacock Lane this Sunday.
I reported a couple weeks ago that the neighborhood association wanted to encourage people to ride their bikes over to Peacock lane to enjoy the light, but they weren't sure how it would work out to have people actually riding bikes through what is expected to be a crowded event with lots of kids. (more...)
The New York City Department of Transportation has picked a winner in their City Bike Racks Competition. It's an elegant and simple hoop design created by a team from Copenhagen (which is quite fitting).
The NY Times City Room blog has the story:
A simple circle, resting on the ground with a bar bisecting it. That concept, called "Hoop" — the brainchild of Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve, designers based in Copenhagen — is the winner of the CityRacks Design Competition and will be used as the new standard bicycle rack installed on New York City’s sidewalks, officials announced on Friday. Nearly 5,000 such racks are to be installed over the next three years.
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