Neighborhood support grows for Going St. bike boulevard

Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)

16 years ago

Buffered Bike Lane with a bike symbol and arrow pointing forward

A banner for the BTA’s campaign seen
at 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 the “Let’s Get Going!” project. A few days ago she updated us on her progress.

Gardner reports that in her visits to nine neighborhood associations and six business districts along the NE Going corridor over the last three months she has received “overwhelming support” for the project.

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Also boding well for the Going Street bike boulevard campaign is that PDOT has a big new plan of their own to focus on funding sources to develop low-traffic, family and bike-friendly streets (I’m working on that story right now).

Emily Gardner, seen here at the Carfree Conference
back in June, is leading the “Let’s Get Going!” effort.

With talk of major public works investments at both the national and statewide levels, there’s a lot of action around bike boulevards these days .

If you’d like to volunteer and help with the BTA’s efforts, Gardner says there’s a great opportunity this Saturday. Here are the details:

Bike Boulevard Volunteer Saturday

To learn more and add your name to the list of supporters for this project, visit BikeBlvd.com.