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Some folks are confused about these rack-shaped objects on the new transit mall.(Photos: Victoria Gilbert) Here’s a bit of good, bad, and confusing news about bike parking on TriMet’s transit mall in downtown Portland (we’ll get to the issue of actually riding on it in a separate story). Back in January, we reported on how … Read more
Crews installed the new bike corral this morning.(Photos © J. Maus) The folks at Widmer Brothers Brewery are so excited to have a new, on-street bike parking corral in front of their Gasthaus Pub (on N. Russell at Interstate), they’re planning a party to celebrate. On September 2nd they’ll host an event called “Bikes and … Read more
A new residential bike parking shelter on SE Washington near Laurelhurst Park.(Photos © J. Maus)
Reader Tomas Quinones and a friend made this bike rack out of bamboo, rope, and used bike tubes. (Photo by Flickr user TomasCoSauce in the BikePortland Photographers pool)
Bike corral on SE 28th.-Slideshow below/More images–(Photos © J. Maus) The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation completed the installation of another on-street bike parking corral last week. This one — on SE 28th at Pine in front of Ken’s Artisan Pizza and Bamboo Sushi — is the 20th on-street bike parking facility installed by … Read more
New bike corral installed yesterday in front of Crema at the corner of SE 28th and Ankeny.Slideshow below – (Photos © J. Maus)
An example of rude bike parking on Vancouver Ave. (Photo by Mary)
As we’ve been covering with regularity in recent weeks, the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation has been busy installing new on-street bike parking facilities. Known as “bike corrals,” they have proven to be very popular with the community and with business owners. Each time we cover a new installation, many people wonder how a … Read more
New bike parking on NE Glisan at 28th gives room to park and room to breathe.(Photos © J. Maus)
New bike corrals have replaced car parking spaces in front of two businesses on N. Williams Ave. (note the one across the street too).–More images–(Photos © J. Maus)
Lincoln Restaurant tries to lure in passing cyclists.(Photo © J. Maus) To accomodate what is probably Portland’s busiest bikeway through a commercial district (outside of downtown), the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation is set to install two more of their on-street bike corrals on N.Williams. According to Sarah Figliozzi with PBOT, the new corrals … Read more
The mystery storefront at 515 SW 3rd.(Photo: Dana Troy) Several readers have alerted me to a mysterious sign posted on a vacant storefront on SW 3rd that reads, “Coming Soon… Portland Bike Station”. I made a few calls and couldn’t find out much about it. One source did confirm for me that it is legit … Read more