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PBOT planner Mauricio LeClerc presented plans for the Pearl District last night.(Photos © J. Maus) After NW Lovejoy was decommissioned as a bikeway by the city, NW Marshall Street was supposed to take its place. The Bureau of Transportation added sharrows, smoothed out cobblestones, and installed signage and pavement markings to direct bicycle traffic from … Read more
County traffic cam image of new buffered bike lanes. Roads in Washington County are getting more bike-friendly. As I write, County crews are putting the finishing touches on three miles of buffered bike lanes on SW Tualatin Sherwood Road from SW Teton to Baler (map). The seven-foot wide lanes give people on bikes a two-foot … Read more
PBOT has striped a new bike lane on NE 7th which puts bike traffic in between moving cars, trains and parked cars.(Photos © J. Maus)
Construction is underway on an innovative new park that stretches all the way across NE Holman between Durham and 13th.(Photos © J. Maus)
New bike lanes, crosswalks, and much more have been added to Rosa Parks Way in North Portland (that’s Peninsula Park in the upper left).(Photos © J. Maus)
Six more coming soon.(Photo © J. Maus) As we reach the end of a month that has seen a huge spike in bicycle/car collisions, the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has unveiled a list of six intersections that will receive bike boxes and “crosswalk striping improvements.” Here are the six intersections:
The intersection of NE Couch and Grand as it stands today. After many documented right-hook collisions, perhaps it’s time to come up with a new engineering solution?(Photos © J. Maus)
PBOT map of Bryant-Holman Connector project. The Portland Bureau of Transportation continues their expansion of low-stress bike streets in North Portland with a neighborhood meeting for the Bryant-Holman Connector project tonight.
On Naito looking north just before railroad tracks. A five-day closure of NW Naito Parkway begins tomorrow morning at 7:00 am. The closure is due to a City of Portland Bureau of Transportation project to repair the Union Pacific Railroad tracks that cross the road as it passes under the Steel Bridge. The closure will … Read more
Analysis shows NE Holladay has great potential as a bikeway corridor.(Photo © J. Maus) Alta Planning and Design has evaluated three east-west corridors through the Lloyd District to determine which one has the most potential as a high-quality bikeway. The study examined NE Lloyd Boulevard, NE Multnomah, and NE Holladay streets. The winner was NE … Read more
One of the two new options revealed by Mayor Adams today includes 10-foot bike lanes on W Burnside.
The Esplanade has been closed for 14 days due to high water.(Photo © J. Maus) Portland Parks & Recreation officials say they continue to monitor the water levels on the Willamette River and that a re-opening of the Eastbank Esplanade could come by the end of this week. The floating portion of the Esplanade path … Read more