With Naito transformed, Better Block launches its biggest summer yet
The largest temporary street transformation in America is just one-third of their summer plans.
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With $1.5 million proposal for Naito, Mayor puts money where his mouth is
It’s the first protected bike lane Hales has proposed.
#BetterNaito demo kicks off two-week trial of multi-use path west of Waterfront Park
The temporary treatment will convert the bike lane and rightmost mixed-traffic lane alongside Waterfront Park to a multi-use path for northbound bike traffic and for people walking.
With pilot project, City will turn Naito Parkway into public space for all
Finally. Great news from PBOT and Commissioner Novick.
Support builds for walking and biking improvements on east side of Naito Parkway (updated)
Even where it isn’t blocked, Naito’s existing goatpath often spills over during festivals.(Photo: M.Andersen/BikePortland) A week after Transportation Commissioner Steve Novick’s office called out Naito Parkway for failing to provide “a minimum level of safety for the traveling public” along Waterfront Park, other central-city institutions are weighing in.
As festival season begins, Naito’s bike lanes are walkers’ only refuge
Though the problem isn’t new, more people seem to be wondering this spring if something could be done about it.
Portland should be inspired by London’s ‘cycle superhighway’
News from London reminds us that Portland is past due on a cycling superhighway of our own.
New bike lane on SW Salmon improves bike access to Naito Parkway
SW Salmon leading to Naito Parkway is much nicer for cycling thanks to changes made by PBOT.
PSU grad students want to ‘Activate’ Waterfront Park
A group of PSU graduate students wants to ‘Activate the Waterfront’ and bicycle access is part of the equation.
Exploring good, bad, ugly and new bikeways with PBOT’s Bicycle Advisory Committee
Join me, PBOT Bicycle Coordinator Roger Geller and members of the Bicycle Advisory Committee for a ride around southwest Portland.
A new bit of hope for fixing the ‘Naito Gap’
After six years of promising to fix one of the most persistent chinks in downtown’s bike lane grid, city planners have a new plan to link the bike lanes north and south of the Steel Bridge on the Naito Parkway.