Sunrise on Mt. Adams, as seen from the door of my tent pitched on the football field of Glenwood High School.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
The Monday Roundup: The homes Portlanders want, the rollin’ coal ‘movement’ & more
An American dream for one in five.
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)
With Jonathan exploring the state on Cycle Oregon and me in Pittsburgh for my other gig, this will be an unusual week here on BikePortland: We’ve been socking away enough to have one or two posts each day this week. And though we’ve got some great stories lined up, barring major events we won’t be posting breaking news. We’ll both be checking in on the site regularly, but this may also slow down comment moderation — our apologies.
But without further ado, here’s a particularly good crop of bike links from around the world that caught our eyes this week:
Housing preference: Even in a fantasy world where cost were no issue, one in five Portland-area residents would still prefer an apartment, condo or duplex. About one in four dream of life in a “rural setting.”
Cycle Oregon Day 1 – The Dalles to Glenwood
Leaving The Dalles at sunrise.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
Mt. Adams was never too far from view today
The Dalles welcomes Cycle Oregon on eve of week-long ride
“The Floozies” — The Dalles official greeters.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
Comment of the Week: Making Beaverton the country’s #1 biking suburb
Can you see the potential? No, seriously.
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)
One of the frustrating facts of life at BikePortland is that we’ve never had time to cover the big Clark and Washington County suburbs nearly as much as we’d like. But if you bike in Washington County and haven’t followed the comments beneath this week’s Washington County post, you’ve been missing out.
Dispatch from a crosswalk enforcement action on NE Killingsworth
PBOT’s Sharon White and Leah Treat acted as decoys for a police action on NE Killingsworth this morning.
(Photos J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photos J. Maus/BikePortland)
Going east (again) for Cycle Oregon
This year’s ride poster.
Something about eastern Oregon keeps calling me back.
In the past six months I’ve made three trips east of the Cascades and tomorrow I’ll shove off for yet another one: the Cycle Oregon Week Ride.
The first two trips I took to the place known as “Oregon’s dry side” were for work: a reporting/riding excursion in The Dalles in March and a trip to Treo Bike Ranch in July. Through my bike adventures and people I met along the way, I’ve learned that the towns and roads in this region have so much to offer I wanted to share them with my family. So, over the long long Labor Day weekend I packed up our mini-van and took my wife Juli and three kids on a camping/road trip. We drove out to the Gorge, stopped in The Dalles, then went south into Heppner, the John Day River Valley, and then looped back up through Fossil, Maupin, Dufur, and then back to the Gorge. It was fantastic.
After city balks at neighbors’ request for bike lane, 34th Ave resident goes public
Riding on 34th between Clinton and Division.
(Photos: M.Andersen/BikePortland)
(Photos: M.Andersen/BikePortland)
After nine months and 270 petition signatures, the people who live on SE 34th Avenue between Clinton and Division just can’t seem to persuade the city to remove five parking spots in front of their houses in order to add a bike lane.
“It’s not strictly a bicycle issue. It’s just traffic working more smoothly.”
— Mark Zahner
“We’re just framing the argument as safety on this block vs. parking spots,” said Mark Zahner, who lives at 34th and Clinton and has led the campaign. “We see there’s a lot of near misses, we’ve acknowledged the problem, we’ve got support from the neighbors. Where do we go from here?”
NE 7th through Lloyd District slated for new bikeway
Detail of PBOT’s plans.
The Bureau of Transportation is eyeing NE 7th Avenue between Weidler and Schuyler for its latest street re-design project aimed specifically at improving conditions for cycling.
Northbound on 7th, the project will add a six-foot wide bike lane and a bike box between Weidler and Broadway, then a bike lane and sharrows between Broadway and Schuyler. In the southbound direction, the project will a mix of bike-only lanes and shared lanes with sharrow markings between Schuyler and Weidler. Also in the plans are a bike box on Broadway to facilitate two-stage left turns from 7th onto Broadway.
Here’s PBOT’s latest project concept drawing:
Attend a virtual open house for ODOT’s Bike/Walk Plan update
Screenshot of virual meeting page.
As we reported last month, the Oregon Department of Transportation is holding “listening sessions” throughout the state to gather input for a major update to their Bicycle and Pedestrian Modal Plan.
Unfortunately there are only five meetings total, just one in the Portland area, and they’re all held during business hours. If you want to share input but can’t make it to one of the meetings, ODOT has launched a website that lets you do so completely online.
ODOT says the Virtual Listening Meeting is the next best thing to showing up in person.
City will add ‘no parking’ signs along 52nd Ave bike lanes
It’s easy to see how this new bike lane
could be mistaken for parking space.
(Photo: M.Andersen/BikePortland)
could be mistaken for parking space.
(Photo: M.Andersen/BikePortland)
The new northbound bike lane on 52nd Avenue between Woodward and Division replaced a parking lane, but since July we’ve heard from many readers that the stripe of paint hasn’t stopped people from leaving their cars and garbage cans there.
City traffic engineer Eva Huntsinger said in an interview Thursday that “no parking” signs will go into the commercial node north of Woodward after a discussion about the subject by city staff late last week.
Hopefully these signs will make things safer for people like reader David Ross, who got in touch in July to share his thoughts.
Weekend Event Guide: Tabor, brewpub tour, a ‘stampede’, and more
Biking goes to the dogs this weekend at the Tour de Lab.
(Photo: TourdeLab.com)
(Photo: TourdeLab.com)
Welcome to your menu of weekend rides and events, lovingly brought to you by our friends at Hopworks Urban Brewery.
Consider what’s on tap this weekend: From a dirt road journey through rugged and beautiful Oregon backroads, to cyclocross races (two of them!), and a tour of local brewpubs, we can’t remember a more fitting sampling of what makes our region so great for bicycling.
If you’re bummed at summer’s impending conclusion, or if you haven’t ridden as much as you’d hoped, you’ve got to seize this weekend and make the most of these sunny and warm days.
Have fun out there!