The City of Beaverton (Portland’s neighbor to the west) and their Bicycle Advisory Committee are planning “Bike Beaverton” tomorrow night.
The event poster encourages folks to “Join your neighbors… for an evening bicycle ride through Beaverton.” The route will be a 7 mile loop starting and ending at the Beaverton City Library using low volume neighborhood streets and streets with bike lanes.
Beaverton’s Senior Transportation Planner Margaret Middleton says the even came about because the advisory committee wanted to, “invite people to ride their bikes in Beaverton.” She adds that, “The ride will be a little bit of education, of course, a lot of fun and a lot of community interaction.”
According to Middleton, they hope to make this an annual event.
It’s great to see Beaverton doing a ride like this and I hope they get a solid turnout.
You can download a PDF of the event poster and the route via the Bicycle Advisory Committee’s website.
I am not sure how this works, but I wanted to tell my story. I arrived at the Beaverton Public Library at 7:10pm. There were alot of bike riders around. I rode down with my 23 month old son in his trailer for his very first trip to the library. We went in and at 7:30pm we came out to enjoy the park only to find that our bike and trailer we stolen. The bike was locked. I would not be totally shocked if I had left the bike all night, but 20 minutes?? In a public place like that with people going in and out, I have to wonder if theives do not actually use events like this as shopping locations. It is unlikely that a thief just happened upon my locked bike and stole it. It is more likely that they were waiting. That is my feeling anyway.
Happy Riding and hopefully I will join soon.