PBOT adds to bikeway markings along Orange Line in southeast

A quibble, but the words should be printed top to bottom or made smaller so they make sense in one gulp at bike speed. We’re not cars.

Sadly, these white stencils on grey concrete are going to loose their effectiveness soon (especially in low light winter conditions)…I wish local agencies would always use the black outlined stencils when planning concrete facilities. Yes it costs more but it works longer.

I was there a couple of times recently and I took for granted that the green markings in the crosswalk are for bikes and the white is for pedestrians. If that’s what they meant, they screwed up by making the green section way too narrow for bidirectional bike traffic. Also, I fail to understand why bikes and pedestrians have to be separated only at the crossing, given that they are not separated in the rest of the multiuse path. If PBOT meant to signify the direction of traffic by color, then they really screwed up by using nonstandard and ambiguous markings. If there’s anything PBOT should’ve fixed, it’s the traffic signal phases that force cyclists and pedestrians to wait way the hell too long despite little cross traffic. If cyclists regularly ignore the light, which they do in this section, that’s an indication of a major design flaw.

PBOT, we need to talk about your paint fetish.

Could we just get the standard green wayfinding signs, but with much bigger text?
Those signs are usually pretty accurate and helpful, aside for needing to be stopped, 4 feet in front of one to actually read it (not exactly conducive to biking).

When sitting-in on the Tilikum planning meetings I offered the suggestion that one side of the structure should be two-way for pedestrians and the other side two-way for cyclists. Someone mumbled that ADA would not allow that, for what reason I do not to this day understand.

The completely separated design would be safer and more comfortable for pedestrians, plus making approaches for both bikes and walkers much simpler both west and east, even as far east as 12th and even to Milwaukie.

Ultimately it probably will be reconfigured like that. The mess at Clinton and elsewhere then could be cleared up.

PBOT also recently added a far-side bike signal here, I believe. That was previously a constant source of confusion for people who waited past the small near side signal head.

Hey PBoT, 6” of white duct tape and clint becomes something a little different.

It’s just amazing how many out of work transportation planners lurk on this site.

Sign up for those jobs and show us how to do it better.

From the beginning they should have designed and constructed on Tilikum Way a bike/ped bridge span over the entire Milwaukie/SE 12th intersection with long ramps ala the Tilikum Bridge rise and fall; constructed a bridge leg north/south over all of the tracks off the Tilikum bike/ped span at 12th; closed Clinton from SE 12th to 13th; provided local access only to address 1225 from SE 13th, or buy the property and used the entire ROW; used the Clinton Right of Way between 12th and 13th to construct a stairway/helix ramp/ elevator (moved from SE 16th crossing over RR tracks to SE 12th). North/south bike/ped traffic still has the crossing of the tracks to navigate but how much of that is there in comparison to the east/west traffic. This design would have eliminated nearly all of the interaction with motorized vehicles and rail traffic and actually be safe for bikes and peds.