First Look: Diverter at NE Fremont and Alameda
With installation of plastic curbs and flexible posts, the new diverter and crossing treatment now (mostly) prevents drivers from using Alameda as much as they used to.
Infrastructure
Advisory bike lanes: Utrecht versus Portland
Much has been made about advisory bike lanes in Portland over the last few months; and it just so happens I’m currently in the Dutch city that helped inspired them.
Portland’s bicycle and pedestrian advisory committees raise grave warnings about I-5 Rose Quarter project
Despite the City of Portland’s attempts to calm them down, the city’s bicycle and pedestrian advisory committees remain deeply concerned about the I-5 Rose Quarter Project. The controversial, $1.4 billion Oregon Department of Transportation project that seeks to widen I-5 through Portland’s central city and build a large cover over freeway traffic in order to … Read more
Dispatch: The unique utility and daunting challenges of biking in New York City
Despite challenges, the Big Apple is an invigorating city to ride in.
Clean slate: New PBOT program will leverage paving projects to redesign streets
It’s all made possible by closer coordination between PBOT’s planning and maintenance divisions.
Portland working with Federal Highway Administration on big push for advisory bike lanes
A three-year trial will include installation at five new locations across Portland.
Neighbors wanted a better bike lane on Killingsworth, so PBOT gave it to them
Inertia was doing its thing, then advocates stepped in.
Lawmakers get first look at Interstate Bridge freeway project price tag
Now that it’s approved by every agency, we see a more accurate version of the project.
10 weeks after fatal collision, ODOT installs new pedestrian signals along Powell Blvd
Sarah Pliner might have gotten across alive if this were installed sooner.
Interstate Bridge freeway expansion could cost up to $7.5 billion
Expansive freeways demand expansive budgets.
Metro Council will hear plan for “ultra” high speed rail
250 mph on a train sounds pretty damn good to us.
First Look: Changes complete at NE Tillamook and 7th
Changes at this hotly contested intersection are finally done. Here are my impressions and photos.