East Portland
We admit it: Our coverage over the years has skewed largely toward Portand’s central city and surrounding neighborhoods. That’s because it’s just where our reporters have lived and that’s where a lot of bike news happens.
But it doesn’t mean we’ve ignored everything east of 82nd. Not at all! We published 100s of stories on this part of the city and you can find them all below. (We’d love to cover this part of the city even more, so if you or someone you know wants to be a correspondent, please get in touch.)
Portland teams with hip-hop dancers to promote new greenway routes
Streets are not truly safe until you can break dance in them. The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) is reaching deep into its bag of tricks to promote cycling on their 25 miles of new neighborhood greenways east of I-205. Over the summer they gamified the new routes with a Go By Greenways game that … Read more
First look at raised bike lanes and sidewalks on outer SE Powell Blvd
This story is from east Portland resident and longtime bike advocate Jim Chasse. One of Portland’s most dangerous roads is finally getting safety upgrades that include new sidewalks, better bike lanes and upgraded crossings from SE 122nd to 136th. Powell Blvd. improvements have been a high priority for residents since this section of southeast Portland … Read more
Bike lanes on East Glisan! Checking in on PBOT’s latest arterial street update
Impacts of these changes will be profound.
Guest opinion: City’s east Portland street survey misses the mark
PBOT must address its lingering autocentric biases that are replete in this survey.