Get used to it.
(Photo: J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photo: J. Maus/BikePortland)
There’s more bad news to report about your ride over the Broadway Bridge.
Monday night ride helps women power through winter
The Let’s Race Bikes monday night ride crew was all smiles after a dry and mild ride this week.
(Photos: Jenn Levo/Let’s Race Bikes)
(Photos: Jenn Levo/Let’s Race Bikes)
Getting out on training and fitness rides can be tough this time of year. Not only does the weather often not cooperate, but the racing calendar is sparse so there isn’t much in the way of motivation. This is where group rides come in!
Gap Week: SW Terwilliger between Chestnut and 7th
Gap? Check. Curve? Check. Narrow road? Check. Dangerous driving? Check. This one has it all (unfortunately).
(Photo: J Maus/BikePortland)
(Photo: J Maus/BikePortland)
Part of Gap Week.
So far this week we’ve covered a gap in downtown, one out east, and now we’ll travel over to southwest. Today’s gap is one that I had the displeasure of discovering during our Southwest Portland Week last February: southbound Terwilliger between Chestnut and 7th/Caldew (map).
Wednesday Video Roundup: 1993 bike messengers, 2016 pro racing kits, and electric car efficiency
Welcome to this week’s roundup! We’ve had glimpses of almost springlike weather, I hope you were able to enjoy it. Our first video is a great one from Brumotti at a soccer (“football”) stadium. There are some great moves, but my favorite is bouncing across the armrests. The other good Brumotti of the week is where he shows the proper way to use a treadmill.
Portland software company rigs up a way to publish its blog posts by bike
The team put “30 to 40 person-hours” into creating the
admittedly ridiculous device.
(Photo courtesy Cozy)
admittedly ridiculous device.
(Photo courtesy Cozy)
So many people at a local startup are into bikes that they’ve rigged up a stationary bike in their office as the way to publish content to their website.
The “Velopsipede,” as they dubbed the project, was the result of a holiday-season “hack day” that invited engineers to unwind by stretching their creative muscles.
“There’s no business justification for doing this,” Matt Greensmith, operations engineering manager for the company, Cozy, said of hack days. “But it enables you to do things you couldn’t otherwise do.”
“Gear Sphere” sculpture coming to North Williams Avenue
It’s coming to Williams Avenue.
(Photos: J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos: J. Maus/BikePortland)
Gap Week: 82nd Avenue and Burnside
East Burnside’s extremely important bike lane vanishes right where an “interested but concerned” biker might want it most.
(Photos: M.Andersen/BikePortland)
(Photos: M.Andersen/BikePortland)
Part of Gap Week.
Every morning and afternoon on East Burnside at 82nd Avenue, 10 cars at a time queue up in what ought to be a great advertisement for finding some other way to get around the city.
People on bikes, meanwhile, squeeze past to their right. They’re riding one of the city’s very few continuous bikeways connecting inner and outer East Portland.
National org chooses Portland as one of ten “Vision Zero Focus Cities”
PBOT’s Vision Zero Technical Advisory Committee
in a meeting earlier this month.
(Photo: PBOT)
in a meeting earlier this month.
(Photo: PBOT)
The Vision Zero Network, a national non-profit on a campaign to help communities eliminate traffic fatalities and injuries, has just launched their “Focus Cities” program and Portland has been chosen as one of the ten cities to take part. The other cities are Austin, Boston, Chicago, Ft. Lauderdale, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington D.C..
Vision Zero Network Director Leah Shahum said in a statement that, “These cities are the pioneers who will save lives by modernizing our approach to traffic safety.” “For too long, communities have accepted traffic fatalities and injuries as normal. The Vision Zero Focus Cities are standing up to challenge ‘business as usual’ and to show cities around the world that these tragedies are unacceptable and preventable.”
Shahum said the ten cities were selected based on their commitment to Vision Zero. Portland has indeed taken the ambitious concept seriously by unanimously adopting it at City Council and launching a task force to tackle the long-range and multi-jurisdictional effort it will take to achieve it.
Willamette Greenway path north of Steel Bridge closed “until further notice” – UPDATED
Property manager says nearby camp makes path access unsafe for residents
(Photos: J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos: J. Maus/BikePortland)
About one-third of a mile of the Willamette Greenway Trail between the Steel and Broadway Bridges is now closed and locked behind a gate with posted signs that read, “Greenway Closed: Detour to Naito Parkway.” This is not an official closure and it’s unclear whether the people who closed it have the legal right to do so.
Guest article: The 20s “bikeway” project through the eyes of two 12-year-old girls
How will the 20s Bikeway feel for Portland’s
target “design user” — a 12-year old girl?
(Photos: J.Maus/BikePortland)
target “design user” — a 12-year old girl?
(Photos: J.Maus/BikePortland)
This is a guest article by Terry Dublinski-Milton, who sits on the board of directors for the Southeast Uplift neighborhood coalition. It’s digested from an essay published Monday on the BikeLoudPDX website.
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This winter, Portland will release the 20s Bikeway for contract bid with a design that City Hall will tout as a modern, much needed north-south bikeway.
Though this statement may technically be correct, my viewpoint is quite different.
“The 20s” is primarily a pedestrian safety project with secondary auto and bike capacity improvements. It needs to be labeled as a bikeway because the federal money that funded it requires it. I would more accurately describe it as a series of needed pedestrian improvements with small bikeway advancements connected citywide by sharrows.
Why do I say this?
Gap Week: Westbound Burnside Bridge between Naito and 3rd
The person cycling in the upper part of this image is in a bike lane, but not for long.
(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Welcome to Gap Week! This is our first in a series of posts where we’ll take a closer look at those annoying places where the bike lane ends.
Low-income households drive much less than high-income households
Source: 1995 National Household Travel Survey via Purdue University.
We’ve explored this issue various times over the years, but you often hear people claiming otherwise so let’s share the information in a new way.
It’s relevant as the city gets ready to vote on a 10-cent gas tax that would go toward slowing the crumbling of Portland’s streets and improving their safety.
Who pays gas taxes?