What’s behind PBOT’s $4.4 billion street maintenance backlog excuse?
The maintenance backlog excuse should not be the end of the conversation — it should be the start of a new one.
bikeway maintenance
PBOT maintenance staff ask council for support while union organizer says strike isn’t off the table
“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
Guest Article: Why PBOT’s top maintenance staffer joined us for a bike ride
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
Hallelujah! PBOT will address bikeway maintenance at upcoming meeting
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
Closer look at overgrown vegetation on SW Terwilliger Parkway
In this quick video I share some thoughts about biking on SW Terwilliger Parkway, a street notorious for its bad bike lane conditions. While it’s one of the most beautiful roads in Portland and recently earned National Historic Register status, Terwilliger leaves something to be desired for bicycle users. It’s a precious north-south, not-super-hilly and … Read more
Snow still blocks many bikeways, one week after storm
(Many key bikeways still a dangerous mess nearly one week after the snow fell.) The major snow and ice storm that moved into Portland Friday is still having negative impacts on bicycling conditions throughout the city. While conditions for drivers have improved greatly in the past few days and some bikeways are clear — large … Read more
Tired of leaves in bike lanes, this Portlander made a pedal-powered sweeper
A simple and effective solution to a perennial problem.
Love riding gravel? Meet Washington County’s unpaved road “Kahuna” Dan Morgan
He fought against paving rural roads. And won.
Gravel update: Progress in places and broom-wielding heroes
Slowly but surely we’re digging out of this mess.
On live TV, reporter shovels gravel off St. Johns Bridge sidewalk – UPDATED
Shovels full of gravel coming up at 11.