Missing on NE 57th: 19 plastic posts meant to protect road users
More missing protection on a key bike route.
cully neighborhood
Sunday Parkways returns this weekend!
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
PBOT pilot program adds secure bike parking for Hacienda CDC residents
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
‘In my shoes’ walking tours offer street-level perspectives from young Black men
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
Time to weigh in on Cully Connector, a key piece of 70s Greenway
“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
PBOT to build first ‘alternative pedestrian walkway’ in Cully
Don’t call it a sidewalk or a bike lane.
An auto user killed a man walking in Cully neighborhood
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
Cully Park is a new gem in northeast Portland
Sure to become a popular biking destination.
Killingsworth gets two-way protected bike lanes in Cully neighborhood
It’s a piece of a future neighborhood greenway.
‘Cully Camina’ event on Sept. 18 will be a Sunday Parkways just for walking
This fall, Northeast Portland will host a new experiment in humanizing streets.
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