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Speak up at your local bike boulevard open house

Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)
Buffered Bike Lane with a bike symbol and arrow pointing forward


BTA New Year's Day Ride-16
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 to tell them how you feel about the project coming to your neighborhood, you should seriously consider attending one of them.

In case you haven’t noticed, many of these projects have already started. Crossing treatments are going in, signs are being added and changed, and new pavement markings and other features are on the way.

This is real. This is not a drill. These projects are moving forward and if you want to influence how they look and feel you need to show up and add your voice to the mix.

Detail of proposed cycle track on
Powell to assist in crossing at SE 85th/86th.

PBOT staff have told me they’re hearing from people at these open houses who are not excited about the bike boulevards and, with the bad PR around the Mayor’s recent Green Streets/BES/PBOT funding plan, it’s likely they’ll continue to hear pushback. Whether you support bike boulevards or not, it’s important to give PBOT your feedback.

PBOT plans two open houses for each project. At the first one, PBOT presents neighbors with a look at existing conditions on the route. At the second open house, PBOT presents more detailed plans that reflect neighborhood input.

Proposed plans and other updates for all projects are here. Information on the bike boulevard open houses can be found here. I’ve also listed them below so you can quickly mark your calendars:

Stay tuned for more coverage. Check our bicycle boulevard archives for previous stories.

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