Long-term plan for central-city bikeways moves toward council approval
Some recent updates to a map of future bikeways in Portland’s central city have advocates talking.
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Some recent updates to a map of future bikeways in Portland’s central city have advocates talking.
796 people died in Oregon road collisions in the last two years, a 42 percent increase.
A bit of humility injected into the event.
Portland’s rising bike advocacy group is putting meat on its bones.
A group is demanding changes atop ODOT and safer streets now.
Change is finally coming to Southeast Clinton Street, and so are the heated emotions that often follow.
The city cited fresh evidence that Clinton Street has accidentally become a significant route for rush-hour car traffic.
Traffic diverters: back by popular demand.
The guidelines would, in some ways, enshrine modern neighborhood greenways into city practices for the first time.
The Facebook page for the new “subgroup”Livable Streets Action. A new group called Livable Streets Action is taking the tactics that have won a string of victories for local biking this spring and summer and applying them to other modes, too. Organizer Dan Kaufman, a videographer and longtime local social justice advocate who has helped … Read more
PBOT says an existing diverter, hailed by activists, is too onerous for some residents.
City spokesman Dylan Rivera said the experimental project “may involve some diverters, speed bumps and signage.”
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