First look inside the new 600-space Lloyd Cycle Station
The Lloyd District just got a lot more bike-friendly.
The Lloyd District just got a lot more bike-friendly.
The 24-hour facility will offer service from on-site mechanics, paid lockers, showers, a bike-repair stand, cargo bike parking and a bike wash.
With the building 80% occupied, bike parking is already spilling into an empty retail space.
Groceries at street-level retail in a low-car development on a protected bike lane. Boom.
The district that might have been can tell us a lot about the districts we want to build today.
In 20 years, this seems likely to be the single most important hub of bicycling in the United States.
It looks as if the mother of all Portland’s low-car apartment projects is likely to get a sibling – an even bigger one.
Streetcars might actually be the very best sort of public transit at improving biking.
As Portland’s government seems to be scaling back its bike investments after years of leading the nation, its private sector is charging ahead after discovering that bike-awareness has become a good way to make money.
Dozens of big new apartment buildings that will cater to low-car Portlanders are popping up all over the inner east side, but the one where work started two weeks ago will be the biggest one of all.