Uber announces new staging lot and pickup/dropoff zones at Moda Center

This will make the Lyft drivers happy as they will have the bike lanes on the south and east sides of the Moda center all to themselves.

I guess this could be good for cyclists. These companies exploit their workers horribly though.

This is a great step in the right direction. But we can’t let up the pressure. This doesn’t fix Lyft, taxis, and private vehicle drivers picking up friends. A PBOT engineer told me via email over a year ago that the bureau recognizes the need for an infrastructure fix to protect the bike lane here, yet nothing has been done. I’ve never observed parking enforcement here, and multiple requests to PBOT for info on whether/how often they’ve deployed Parking Enforcement here have gone unanswered. I’m glad something’s being done but there’s still more left to do.

And the penalty for non-compliance is? They did this at the Moscone Center in SF, but the problem is still rampant.

“Ride share” is really just a million terrible cab drivers with no regulation. These folks are causing congestion and are a hazard to us all. This is good work, and I’m glad people engaged to mitigate bad behavior, but these business models incentivize unsafe behavior.

I’m going to guess that once they start using this regularly they will find that traffic at N. Winning Way and N. Wheeler is prohibitive – there is a parking garage exit and an I-5 entrance at this intersection and after games this area is very slow.

Maybe we should all chip in and get Bike Portland a giant biomass powered, bike lane width steamroller. We can drive it in circles around the Moda Center after Blazer games. It would be driven slowly so the offending rideshare operators would have time to jump from their “rides” before they are “recycled”. Luckily, based on recent events the worst that could happen to the operator would be a citation for “ failure to yield.”

Congrats to actually making something happen. I’ve watched the clusterf__k since the Blazer season began as I regularly attend games which I walk to from NE PDX. It’s been horrible already with the pedestrian traffic, Lyft drivers sitting in the middle of intersection blocking traffic trying to get on I-5. Been waiting for a serious traffic incident. As a bicyclist I’ve especially worried when I’ve seen bicyclist trying to use the bike lane. Since Blazers are heavily promoting Lyft I’ve thought of contacting them my self.
When I went to the game the other night & noticed all the cones protecting the bike lane I wondered what was up. So glad to see the improvement.