One decade in, Bike Loud will host 2030 bike plan rally next week
10 years ago next week Portland City Council passed the Bicycle Plan for 2030. Now scrappy local bike advocacy group Bike Loud PDX wants to make sure they don’t forget about it.
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Bike Loud PDX wants to make Portland’s 2030 Bike Plan relevant again
I’ll excuse you for not knowing that it’s almost the 10th anniversary of the City of Portland’s Bicycle Plan for 2030. For a plan adopted amid seemingly boundless optimism that a new era in transportation was imminent, its contents and visions and goals have tumbled from their pedestal like a highly-rated rookie prospect that never … Read more
PBOT shares progress report on 2030 bike plan
The five-year progress report for the Portland Bicycle Plan for 2030 is five years overdue. That seems like a fitting allegory for the general lack of urgency and institutional respect for cycling in Portland city government right now. At last night’s meeting of the PBOT Bicycle Advisory Committee, city bicycle coordinator Roger Geller unveiled a … Read more
Comment of the Week: Portland’s five-step recipe for 25 percent biking
25 percent is possible and even imaginable.
How can Portland get to 25 percent biking? New web game lets you try
The City of Portland’s official goal for 16 years from today is for one in four commutes to happen by bicycle, up from 6 percent today.
Visualizing the cost of local transportation projects
Sometimes it’s hard to visualize these things. So we gave it a shot.
Mia Birk of Alta Bicycle Share says Portland’s system “Will allow us to fulfill the 2030 vision”
Get ready Portland, it’s coming!.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) On Friday afternoon, the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) announced that Alta Bicycle Share had won the contract to operate the Portland Bike Share system. Given Alta’s Portland headquarters, their success in nabbing major bike share projects around the country, and Birk’s own close connections with the … Read more
Guest Article: Bikes and the transportation policy debate
Chris Smith [This article is written by Chris Smith. Smith is a former City Council candidate and current City of Portland Planning Commissioner with a long list of transportation activism palmarès.] “Many of the economic interests at the table are simply unwilling to agree (or sincerely unable to believe) that we can grow the Central … Read more
Editorial: Does Portland’s Bike Plan matter?
Time to get it off the shelf.(Illustration: Mark Markovich) I just returned from an open house for the Lloyd District Bikeway projects. Unfortunately, my hunches about the direction each of them is headed have been confirmed. At this point, I think it’s time to take the Portland Bicycle Plan for 2030 off the shelf and … Read more
PBOT releases one year progress report on Bike Plan
Cover of report.– Download PDFs below – It’s been over a year since the City of Portland unanimously adopted its Bike Plan for 2030. The plan was impressive for its depth and scope; calling for a city where, by 2030, bicycling is more attractive the driving for short trips and where 25% of all trips … Read more
BTA asks for more in one-year review of 2030 Bike Plan
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) has released a one-year report on the City of Portland’s 2030 Bike Plan. In it, the non-profit group points out where PBOT has lived up to their lofty goals and where they need to do more.
2030 Bike Plan one year old today
– Download full size –(Illustration: Mark Young/Portland Storyboard/Concept: Jonathan Maus)