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Bike Boxes

Special Coverage of Bike Boxes
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Bike boxes are a new roadway engineering treatment being used by the City of Portland Office of Transportation to improve bike safety at intersections. They are intended to improve awareness and visibility of cyclists and to help prevent dangerous “right-hook” collisions.

For more information, read the stories below and check out these links for more information:

    –Listen to BikePortland.org editor Jonathan Maus discuss bike boxes during an interview on the KINK-FM Morning Show.
    Download the MP3 (10MB)

    –Listen to City of Portland Traffic Engineer Rob Burchfield talk about bike boxes.
    Download MP3 (2.5MB: 2 min, 50 sec)

    –View BikePortland’s bike box photo gallery

    –Visit PDOT’s Bike Box Information page.

Click headlines below for full stories.


ODOT: Bike conflict markings, bike boxes – but no bike lanes – through Barbur Crossroads

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Woman injured in right hook at NE Couch and Grand

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City unveils list of 11 new bike box locations

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PSU evaluation finds that bike boxes work

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PBOT confirms last year’s record low traffic crash, fatality numbers

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With bike boxes, the color is key

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First look: New green bike lanes in Rose Quarter Transit Center

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FHWA wants Portland to test un-colored bike boxes

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A bittersweet bike box

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Video: Another reason to “Get behind the bike box”

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“Bike box!”; Streetfilms points lens on Portland’s green space

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State officials endorse Portland’s bike boxes

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