Happy Friday everyone! Kick back and enjoy our latest banter. Lots of good stuff in this one:
- Eva’s trip to Bend
- PPS School Board elections
- All about Ainsworth (Eva got menaced by a driver!) and what PBOT has in store for an upgrade
- PBOT’s new bicycling encouragement campaign
- How to counter people who say, “But not everyone can ride a bike.”
- Reasons for optimism at City Hall
- City budget stuff
- State transportation package update and cap and trade.
- Bike Summer rides in the Portland Mercury print edition
- How’d she get there? A tough one from SE Woodstock and Cesar Chavez to Peninsula Park for the Kickoff Ride.
- and more!
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The Eastside 40s bikeway has an epic number of jogs offline, and it has a good share of door zone bike lanes. The experience isn’t a lot different than ‘just ride on avenues that start with 4 and make your way the best you can’. If you’re able to follow the sharrows you will come to a signaled crossing of Powell Boulevard and a freeway bridge so there’s that. I think the I-84 bridge may actually be on 54th Ave. which is an indicator of how much it wiggles around.
Cesar Chavez is tempting for a person looking at a street map for the first time but not many folks will ask for more of that.
I’m so sorry to hear about the menacing cars. Some crazy driving still happening even if serious injury numbers are down. On a one hour walk today, I had three drivers speed up to avoid stopping for me after I was already in the lane in a painted crosswalk, and one crossed a double yellow midline to get around me when I was in the middle of his lane. What are they thinking?! Nice day for a walk otherwise.
With a few stories or experiences like mine and Eva’s, I think the “timid but interested” in cycling as transportation might shift closer to the to “no way no how” mentality.
Thanks for the segment “How’d she get there?” I appreciate the mental exercise of picking a bike route through town. I am so clueless when I get off my known paths.