Here’s what Portland’s new carfree street and elevated bikeway will look like
The Burnside Bridgehead is slowly but surely become a place.
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The Burnside Bridgehead is slowly but surely become a place.
From zero to 36 in about eight weeks.
Like crosswalks, but for bikes.
And 65 people got in touch to say they liked it.
“The safety of people is more important than relationships at this point.”
Bowie and Prince are now part of Portland’s pantheon of bike lane characters.
Reader Adam Herstein rode the new bikeway along ODOT’s Sunrise Corridor.
A buffered bike lane, perhaps made of concrete like a sidewalk, is the better approach, ODOT staffers said.
It’s the first academic study in North America dedicated specifically to the danger of streetcar tracks to people biking.
Hales hopes his second try at a Better Naito works out better than his first.
Minneapolis, NYC and SF all have more miles of bikeway per square mile and have been adding it faster.
It seems destined to become one of Portland’s great bike routes.