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‘I just can’t cycle anymore’ says 60-year-old after being hit while biking
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Glisan Street ‘raceway’ to get facelift in bid to improve safety
Before and after
The Portland Bureau of Transportation will begin work next week on what they’re (smartly) calling an “update” to Northeast Glisan Street east of I-205 to the city limits.
City preps to cut speed limit on four mid-sized streets
Slower.
(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland)
(Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland)
The Portland Bureau of Transportation is ordering slower traffic speeds on four streets, three of which have recently been redesigned to be more neighborhood-friendly.
The four are Southwest Vermont Street from Capitol Highway to SW 45th near Gabriel Park, which will go from 35 to 30 mph; SW Multnomah Boulevard from Interstate 5 to SW 31st, going from 45 to 35 mph; NE Glisan Street from 27th to 79th, going from 35 to 30 mph; and NE/SE 47th Avenue from NE Tillamook to SE Oak, going from 30 to 25 mph.
All four streets have bike lanes for some or all of those segments.
On NE Glisan, new bike lane character (and lower speed limit) earn clucks of approval
Male? Female? The comb seems hiply unisex. Either way, it’ll now have a safer time crossing the road.
(Photo: Terry Dublinski-Milton)
(Photo: Terry Dublinski-Milton)
Portland’s famous bike lane characters keep getting more colorful. As we wrote in December, this unique and wonderful tradition has been making a comeback, thanks to creative city staffers.
For less than $500,000, 3 Portland road diets are preventing 37 crashes every year
(Data: Portland Bureau of Transportation. Chart: BikePortland.)
A new city study shows the big payoff the city has quietly seen from a few uses of one of the least-understood tricks in traffic engineering: the 4-3 road diet.