PBOT wants to crowdsource bike corral usage data with eye on improvements
Nine years later, it’s time to crunch the numbers.
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Portlander offers beer to illustrate bike parking demand at brewery
Is this the first time bike parking and beer have combined to influence a City infrastructure decision?
Changes to bike parking at New Seasons Market in Arbor Lodge
If you’re one of the many people who shop by bike at the New Seasons Market in Arbor Lodge, you’ll notice some big changes to their bike parking arrangement next time you stop in.
PBOT reaches 100th bike corral milestone
The city installed the first on-street bike corral at Fresh Pot on N Mississippi Ave in 2004. Today there are 100 of them throughout the city.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has announced the installation of their 100th on-street bike corral. This milestone comes nine years after the first one was … Read more
The business benefits of on-street bike corrals: An infographic
Bike Corrals: Local Business Impacts, Benefits, and Attitudes, by Drew Meisel.(Click for larger image – Download PDF)
Beaverton considering way-finding signs, bike corral for SW Broadway
Detail of Broadway St. bike parking concept.(Sketches by Bob Foster/Robert Foster Architects) As we’ve mentioned before, the City of Beaverton is working to make SW Broadway Street safer and more pleasant for people on foot and on bikes. They held an open house in early February and last week Mayor Denny Doyle was available for … Read more
Keeping corrals clean
Downtown Clean & Safe employees cleaning up the bike corral on SW Broadway just south of Burnside.(Photos © J. Maus)
Behind Portland’s bike corral backlog
PBOT graphic: Portland’s bicycle corrals: Installations by year – Click to enlarge –
Bike parking gets even better on North Mississippi and Williams
All cozy and dry… I think I’ll stop for a meal.(Photos © J. Maus) Portland’s bike parking offerings continue to improve in both quality and quantity. Recently I’ve noticed two developments in North Portland worth your attention: a new on-street bike corral on N. Williams Avenue and a nice covering of a corral on N. … Read more
Eugene advocate pushes residential bike parking corrals
Demonstration of a residential bike corral in Eugene by Paul Adkins.(Photo: Paul Adkins) A Eugene resident has submitted a proposal to the City of Eugene to install on-street, residential bike parking corrals. On-street bike corrals are common in Portland, but we’ve yet to extend the idea into residential areas. Noted bike advocate Paul Adkins and … Read more
Portland’s first bioswale bike corral and more bike parking on Williams
BES has taken an on-street bike corral…(Photo © J. Maus) And integrated it with a bioswale!(Photo: PBOT)
Vancouver gets two more on-street bike corrals, but businesses thwart a third
New bike parking across from Esther Short Park.(Photos by Marcus Griffith Earlier this week, the City of Vancouver installed two more on-street bike parking corrals, raising the city’s total to three. The new racks were installed Tuesday morning at Esther Short Park and on the corner of Broadway and McLoughlin Blvd in downtown Vancouver. As … Read more