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The City of Portland plans to re-stripe N. Mississippi Avenue to make room for a new bike lane in the northbound (uphill) direction.
According to a source at PDOT, the new lane will be six feet wide and will grow to seven feet at the curves. Scheduled completion is the end of this month.
Over the years, many people have asked where BikePortland.org readers come from, so I thought it would be interesting to delve into the visitor stats and find out more.
In May, BikePortland.org had a record number of visits — just over of 162,000 (according to Google Analytics). Of those visits:
I came across an interesting account of a collision that happened two weeks ago in downtown Portland.
Kate Gawf was riding her bike south on SW NW Broadway and noticed the aftermath of a bike-on-bike collision at Couch Street. Here’s how Ms. Gawf explains what happened (based on talking with onlookers, emphasis mine):
“One [bike] was zooming along Broadway, as one does, Broadway being a main arterial. The other apparently tried to dart across Broadway at a gap in the cars, but neglected to wait for a gap in the bikes.”
Proclaiming that, “Southwest Portland wants to be Platinum too,” SWTrails has released their latest list of “immediate actions” and recommendations for bikeway improvements in their part of the city.
SWTrails has worked with Southwest Portland residents and the City of Portland Office of Transportation for well over a year (we last heard from them back in November) to identify and map out a comprehensive list of improvements that they say will bring SW Portland up to par with other areas of Portland’s highly touted bike network.
As part of an ongoing effort to renovate and improve the Bryant Street Pedestrian/Bike Bridge, the span will be temporarily closed while City of Portland and ODOT crews complete some repaving work.
According to the Piedmont Neighborhood, the bridge will be closed from June 9-11 and they recommend crossing over I-5 via Portland Blvd/Rosa Parks Way or Lombard Ave.
For more information about the Bryan Bridge Improvement Project, visit the official website.
A scenic, challenging 55 mile loop winds into the foothills of the Cascades and back to Canby. Once again, the central rest stop will feature food provided by Chris King Precision Components. Chris King makes the best quality components in the world. Chris’s passion is cooking, so this rest stop will be special! Finish off a great century with a bucolic 45 mile loop in historic Champoeg country. Each loop begins and ends at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds in Canby.
If you’ve ever tried to navigate across the I-5 bridge from Portland to Vancouver (or vice versa) you know that it’s not for the faint of heart.
With a disorienting combination of sidewalks, a freeway on-ramp and off-ramp, and several high-speed streets that access hotels and the Janzten Beach shopping center, it seems like it was designed and planned before bicycles even existed (or clearly before they were considered a viable means of transport).
On Sunday, a group of Portlanders took it upon themselves to make several popular bike routes a bit safer and more pleasant to ride on.
Daniel Johnson conceived of the ride back in January and the first one went so well he decided to do it again.
Writing on a local email list, Johnson explained that the premise for the ride is simple: “My plan was to make art around potholes in order to make people look at them, think about them, and talk about them… to show people that we don’t have to just live with wrecked streets, we can do something about it.”
Check out the video below.
It was created by Daniel Sharp for Nau, a clothing designer that used to be based in Portland (before closing their doors).
Location:
Metro Regional Center
Council Chamber
600 NE Grand Avenue
Portland, OR 97232