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“On-street bicycle parking can provide many advantages… These advantages, which accrue to businesses and citizens, also support several city policies and objectives.”— from a PDOT press release Since some folks seem determined to find something negative about the new on-street bike parking facilities, I thought I would share the PDOT perspective. Yesterday afternoon they issued … Read more
KATU-TV has a hot story; bikes should pay to park!(Screenshot from KATU-TV video). I was afraid this might happen. With today’s big rollout of the four new on-street bike parking corrals in downtown Portland, I wondered how the local media would handle the news. KATU-TV is one of the first bits of coverage I’ve seen … Read more
“These corrals… are intended to serve the high volume of people arriving by bicycles at these locations.”— from a PDOT media advisory about new bike parking downtown The streetscape of downtown Portland has been forever altered. Thanks to four new on-street bike parking facilities (a.k.a. bike corrals), PDOT has hastened a shift in the balance … Read more
Here’s the press release from PDOT: Four new on-street bicycle parking locations unveiled on National PARK(ing) Day – September 19 (PORTLAND, OR) – The Portland Office of Transportation will be celebrating National PARK(ing) Day on Friday, September 19, with its four newest on-street bicycle parking facilities. National PARK(ing) Day is a nationwide event sponsored by … Read more
New on-street bike parking at SW 3rd and Pine.Slideshow below(Photos © J. Maus) As promised last week, PDOT is moving ahead quickly with their on-street bike parking program. The first of four bike corrals slated for downtown Portland has already been installed. The location is SW 3rd and Pine street in front of Stumptown Coffee … Read more
As promised last week, PDOT is working to install four new on-street bike parking corrals around downtown. Reader Austin Ramsland snapped a photo of the work-in-progress. The location of this corral is at SW 3rd and Pine (near Stumptown Coffee):
A PDOT concept drawing of new on-street bike corrals coming to downtown Portland by the end of this month.(Click to enlarge)
I took my 5 1/2 year-old daughter to school this morning and was overjoyed to see the bike racks over flowing… Not enough space for all the bikes at Trillium Charter School in North Portland.(Photos © J. Maus)
On-street bike parking in downtown Seattle.(Photos © J. Maus)
While riding down NE Alberta Street yesterday I noticed a new cafe with some fantastic bike parking. The Radio Room has devoted a considerable portion of their property at NE 11th and Alberta to bike parking.(Photos © J. Maus)
Still from video — Watch it below Streetfilms, the video-journalism arm of the New York City-based Livable Streets Network, has published a film that focuses on Portland’s signature bike parking treatments: bike oases and bike corrals. The film features PDOT staffer Greg Raisman (who was behind Portland’s first-ever corral at N. Shaver and Mississippi), Belmont-area … Read more
Ethos Music Center in North Portland is awaiting an on-street bike corral(notice the paint marks on the road).(Photos © J. Maus) PDOT crews have prepped the road for the new on-street bike racks (known as a “bike corral”) in front of the non-profit Ethos Music Center on the corner of N. Killingsworth and N. Williams. … Read more