Portland will be testing ground for new bike lane sweeper trailer
The latest prototype will be tested by a local nonprofit and available for loans.
The latest prototype will be tested by a local nonprofit and available for loans.
Are robot bike lane sweepers really that far behind?
Is there a plowing technique that could help avoid this in the future?
This puts an end to 10 months of negotiations between the union and the city.
Local 483 leaders say nothing will change until maintenance employees are respected.
The situation certainly doesn’t help the ongoing problem of unswept bike lanes
We need the rain, but for people who bike around the city, wet weather comes with caveats.
The maintenance backlog excuse should not be the end of the conversation — it should be the start of a new one.
“We get a lot of thank yous from downtown, but those thank yous dry up when we ask for more money, and we’re suffering.” -Andrew Sterling, PBOT and Laborers Local 483 The people who work in the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s Maintenance Operations department do the nitty-gritty work of keeping this city moving — and … Read more
Story and photos by Cathy Tuttle People who bike every day are the folks who ground-truth poor maintenance. We intimately experience gutters filled with leaves and plastic bike lane wands broken in the same locations day after day. We see street trees dying, and giant potholes reappearing over and over on what look like war-torn … Read more
Warning: The following contains a lot of my opinions that might be uncomfortable for some readers. For a city with a rich legacy of cycling with aspirations to be even more cycling-centric, the lack of care and capacity that the Portland Bureau of Transportation spends on keeping cycling paths, shoulders, and lanes clean is unacceptable … Read more