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The old and the new.(Photos © J. Maus) On Sunday, the girls and I joined a few friends for a ride out to Sauvie Island for some berry picking. Besides a chance to enjoy a day on the farm, I was also able to get my first look at the new Sauvie Island Bridge.
BTA leader Scott Bricker (shown here at an event last week) has joined other groups in calling on City Council to re-think the CRC project.(Photo © J. Maus) As expected, the BTA and a coalition of environmental groups have stepped up their oppositional stance to the Columbia River Crossing project. They have just issued a … Read more
[Updated 7/7, 12:00ppm: Read this story for an update.] With just a few days before the Portland City Council takes an important vote on the Columbia River Crossing (CRC) project, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) (along with a growing coalition of organizations) is stepping up its drumbeat of concern. The BTA has struggled to find … Read more
The new bike box at W. Burnside and 14th.Video below(Photos © J. Maus) On Monday, the city of Portland installed a bike box in the SE corner of W. Burnside and 14th streets in downtown Portland — the same intersection where Tracey Sparling was killed nine months ago. This is the eighth bike box the … Read more
“…he’s “seriously considering” not supporting the resolution at all.”–from a Portland Mercury story about Commissioner Dan Saltzman’s position on the CRC project. A week from today (July 9th), Portland City Council will take an important vote on the Columbia River Crossing project. On June 24th, in advance of a meeting of the CRC Task Force, … Read more
TriMet tested bike access options last month.(Photos © J. Maus) The BTA reports that TriMet has officially decided to make bike access through the Rose Quarter a reality. TriMet tested potential solutions for bike traffic through its busy Rose Quarter transit hub back in June. Now, according to the BTA’s Michelle Poyourow, TriMet will make … Read more
The short video below premiered at Bike Porn 2. It contains some dirty language but it’s definitely worth watching for what I think is one of the best lines ever spoken in the growing bike box film genre…
Bike box. Get it?(Photo: Movie still)(Watch video below.) Clarence Eckerson Jr., that intrepid auteur with New York City-based Streetfilms, just posted another one of the films he made during his recent visit to Portland. Eckerson is the man behind the Sunday Parkways video I posted Tuesday (that film has already been viewed nearly 4,000 times).
A design firm’s rendering of how the Bryant St. Ped/Bike Bridge might look in the future (See how it looks now in the photo below).(Design by: Compressed Pattern)
How many bikers do you see?(Photo © J. Maus) The City of Portland is expanding the scope of their annual bike counts and they need volunteers to help them do it. Denver Igarta, a transportation planner with PDOT, says they want to cover 140 locations this year. That’s an increase over the 98 locations they … Read more
Artists rendering of new I-5 bridge.(Graphic: CRC) Portland City Council has added their voice to the list of agencies and organizations that want the replacement bridge and light rail option to receive further study in the $4.2 billion Columbia River Crossing project. Their unanimous support comes in the form of a letter to the Co-Chairs … Read more
Rendering from PBAC memo: “Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee Recommended Pathway on West Side of West Replacement Bridge (Looking North)”