Missing on NE 57th: 19 plastic posts meant to protect road users
More missing protection on a key bike route.
More missing protection on a key bike route.
This Sunday, six miles of streets in Portland’s northeast Cully neighborhood will be free of cars and open to people walking, biking and rolling. That’s right: Sunday Parkways, Portland’s beloved annual summer open streets event, is back in-person after two years off and it’s almost time for the kickoff. During the last two summers, the … Read more
The Portland Bureau of Transportation has partnered with Hacienda Community Development Corporation and Andando en Bicicletas y Caminando to build secure bike parking for residents at Hacienda affordable housing communities. As the Community Cycling Center discovered over a decade ago in their groundbreaking “Barriers to Bicycling” report, fear of bike theft ranks high as a … Read more
Perspective is everything. It’s why many bike advocates dream of having leaders who’ve actually ridden a bike, so they intimately understand the issues we face. Perspective is crucial because it forces us to go outside our personal bubbles — something that’s severely lacking in today’s polarized and self-absorbed social-media soaked world. The new “In My … Read more
“I’m dead set against this proposal… If you bought your house [on 73rd] and thought you had a nice, calm street, it’s going to get busier.”— Ted Carlston, Roseway Neighborhood Association The City of Portland is looking for feedback on how to design a project that will create a low-stress bicycling and walking route along … Read more
Don’t call it a sidewalk or a bike lane.
Sunday night around 8:00 pm someone who was walking in the Cully neighborhood near the intersection of Northeast 45th and Lombard died in a collision with someone driving a car. This is the third fatality in the Columbia/Lombard corridor in 2019 and it comes as the Portland Bureau of Transportation is working on a plan … Read more
Sure to become a popular biking destination.
It’s a piece of a future neighborhood greenway.
This fall, Northeast Portland will host a new experiment in humanizing streets.