A bikeway crossroads: NW 14th and Johnson.
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)
Portland’s most underperforming bike quadrant is about to get a very big investment.
Despite their proximity to jobs, northwest Portland residents are significantly less likely to bike-commute than residents of inner southeast, north or northeast Portland. And that’s exactly why Portland’s Biketown system is putting its biggest bet on northwest.
Today’s announcement of a final station map comes on the very same day that a state committee will start debating the fate of the first major bike project for northwest Portland in many years, arguably the key to getting inexperienced bike users comfortably across Interestate 405: the proposed Flanders Crossing bridge.