Here’s how to make the $7.5 billion IBR project suck less
The bike facility is clearly inadequate and won’t attract riders unless key changes are made.
4/25: Hello readers and friends. I'm still recovering from a surgery I had on 4/11, so I'm unable to attend events and do typical coverage. See this post for the latest update. I'll work as I can and I'm improving every day! Thanks for all your support 🙏. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
The bike facility is clearly inadequate and won’t attract riders unless key changes are made.
This has historically been one of the busiest bikeways not just in the city, but in the entire country.
If you don’t push the beg button, you don’t get the safety benefits.
Something was lost in translation between the city and county.
The rows rarely fill up in the bingo game of southwest bike infrastructure funding.
What activists are thinking as we dive into the draft environmental impact statement.
It won’t happen soon enough to reverse injuries to at least one rider.
It was more complex than expected and deemed not worth the risk.
We have a plan, we just need to build them and make the network good enough for people to actually use them.
At long last, we have bike lanes on the northernmost stretch of Willamette Blvd all the way to St. Johns.
Congratulations! Your bikeway is ready for prime time.
We’re onto 60% plans in the second part of this three-part series.