The trouble with trash cans on the Cully cycle track
Trash cans obstructing the cycle track on NE Cully Blvd. Garbage trucks have trouble getting to them up on the curb.
(Photos © J. Maus)
(Photos © J. Maus)
cully boulevard project
Riding Portland’s first (real) cycle track on Cully Blvd.
The new cycle track on Cully, part of a large-scale road reconstruction project, is now complete.
(Photos/video © J. Maus)
(Photos/video © J. Maus)
As strange as it may sound, Cully Boulevard in outer Northeast Portland is now home to the most significant piece of bike infrastructure in our city.
The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has just completed a cycle track that runs 0.6 miles from NE Prescott to Killingsworth. And, unlike the “cycle track” on SW Broadway near Portland State University (which is nice, but it’s really just a curbside bike lane protected from motor vehicle traffic by parked cars), the Cully facility is the real deal.
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Event: BikePortland Get-together Cully (5/25/11)
Event Name: BikePortland Get-together
Event Start Date: 25 May 2011
Start Time: 5:30 PM – 8:30(ish)
Location: The Spare Room 4830 Northeast 42nd Avenue Portland, OR 97218
Web Site: http://bikeportland.org/gettogether
Event Description: These events are a chance for you to meet up offline to make connections, discuss issues, learn from each other, foment plans, and tap into the local community. They’re also a chance for us to meet you and find out about issues in parts of Portland that we don’t often get a chance to visit. If you live, ride, work or play in the area, please come join us.
Get-togethers are made possible in part by SKS Germany. We will have SKS product door prizes for some attendees. Please bring money for drinks and food if interested.
First look at cycle track in-progress on NE Cully Blvd
View of the cycle track (L) and the sidewalk (R) on the new NE Cully Blvd. Please note that the striping and signage is not complete.
(Photos © J. Maus)
(Photos © J. Maus)
Portland’s first cycle track proposed for Cully
A cross-section detail of proposed design of NE Cully Street shows 8 1/2-foot wide cycle-track. Note: Not shown is a wide pedestrian walkway. See below for fully cross-section.
