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On FosterUnited.org Citizen activist, transportation planner, and southeast Portland resident Nick Falbo has upped the ante in the grassroots effort to add a high-quality bikeway to SE Foster Road. As we reported last month, the City of Portland and residents are currently working on an update to the Foster Road Streetscape Plan and a new … Read more
Rollin’ through the Ice Age.(Photo: Metro) The Tonquin Trail — a 22 mile system of paths that will someday connect the cities of Sherwood, Tualatin and Wilsonville — is now officially named the Ice Age Tonquin Trail. The project has also just completed a master plan that is set to be forwarded onto city, regional, … Read more
As seen just south of SW Whitaker St.(Photos: Jim Parsons) As we reported back in September, PBOT has repaved SW Barbur Blvd just south of downtown Portland. As part of that project, they’ve widened the bike lanes and have painted a striped buffer. The new buffered lanes are about 3/4 of a mile long and … Read more
Portland Parks & Rec says they’ll move forward with using this portion of N Interstate for the Willamette Greenway Trail. (Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) The dream for the North Portland Greenway trail project has always been to extend the Eastbank Esplanade to St. Johns along the river. It was envisioned as a path that would … Read more
New bike lanes on Dearborn; just in time for holiday shopping.(Photo: Green Lane Project) Like New York before them, Chicago has just taken a major step forward in becoming a city where biking is given equal respect to driving. Advocates are buzzing today as the Chicago Department of Transportation has striped a new, two-way bikeway … Read more
This bike rack at the Plaid Pantry on SE Grand and Burnside is one of 12 that have been recently installed. I’ve got some great news for Portlanders who frequent Plaid Pantry convenience stores by bike. For years, I’ve heard grumblings from readers (and have experienced it myself) about the hassle of having no bike … Read more
Businesses along SW Stark.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) One of the Great Myths that somehow continues to follow urban bicycling around is that when you redesign a street to improve bike access, it will automatically be bad for adjacent businesses. This is of course completely absurd. But even with studies and common sense easily disproving such … Read more
Google street view of Sylvan overpass.
New buffered bike lanes have been installed west of MLK Jr Blvd as part of the ongoing changes to NE Multnomah Street through the Lloyd District.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
New bike lane on SE 112th near Powell Blvd.(Photos: Gretchin Lair) I love receiving dispatches about bike stuff from readers in parts of town that I don’t often get to myself. I rely on your eyes and ears to help me cover more than just the central city. Case in point is reader Gretchin Lair. … Read more
Greeeeeen.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
In a move that can be described as nothing less than audacious, Hillsboro Mayor Jerry Willey is leading an effort to receive a legislative mandate to move forward on studying a mega-project now being calling the “Westside Transportation Corridor.” The project is a re-hash of the long-debated Westside Bypass that would create a new freeway … Read more