PBOT Planning Manager Paul Smith explains the project to open house attendees.(Photos © J. Maus) On Tuesday night at the Hollywood Senior Center, the City of Portland hosted the first official public open house for the Sullivan’s Gulch corridor project. Nearby residents and others simply curious about what could be a major new carfree thoroughfare … Read more
Artist rendering of SW Moody taken from project website. Tomorrow, the Portland Bureau of Transportation will lift the lid on their SW Moody Project that includes what will be downtown’s first-ever cycle track.
One of the few paved segments of the corridor on Swan Island.(Photo © J. Maus) The City of Portland is ready to start the public process on the North Portland Willamette Greenway Trail, a shared-use path that will someday extend the Eastbank Esplanade 10 miles — all the way to the St. Johns Bridge. Citizen … Read more
If all goes well, this will becomea more frequent sight in East Portland.(Photo © J. Maus) As we shared on Wednesday, the Portland Bureau of Transportation is ready to roll on a set of projects that are likely to give a major jolt to the anemic active transportation network in East Portland. The draft East … Read more
Cross-section of proposed project that would link the Springwater to the Trolley Trail in Milwaukie. While much of the media attention for the current round of Metro’s regional flexible funding allocation revolved around the Portland bike sharing project, there are a host of other (extremely important) projects and programs that have been selected. Metro is … Read more
New striping gives bike traffic a buffer from cars on NE Wheeler behind the Rose Quarter.(Photos © J. Maus) The Portland Bureau of Transportation has begun implementation of a project to make bicycling near the Rose Quarter more comfortable. NE Wheeler Ave between Winning Way and the Rose Quarter Transit Center now has wider bike … Read more
Commissioner Amanda Fritz and Mayor Sam Adams listening to testimony on the 50s Bikeway project today.(Photos © J. Maus) Portland City Council voted in unanimous support of the 50s Bikeway project today (Commissioner Saltzman was not present). The $1.5 million, federally funded project will fill a 4.3 mile gap in the north-south bikeway along 52nd … Read more
The 50s Bikeway project is at City Council today!(Map: PBOT) The 50s Bikeway project will be up for a vote at City Council today. While it’s expected to get the required three votes of support, you can also expect some loud opposition to one specific piece of the project — a diverter planned for SE … Read more
A new plan by PBOT would convert the auto parking on this stretch of Holladay into a 10-foot wide shared auto/bike lane.(Photo © J. Maus) The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has released a new plan for how to turn NE Holladay Street into a major, two-way bikeway from the Rose Quarter Transit Center to … Read more
Looking west from NE 82nd Avenue onto what could be the location of the first paved portion of the Sullivan’s Gulch Corridor.
Drawing of the future Waud Bluff Trail, which could open as early as spring 2012.– Download PDF –
PBOT planner Mauricio LeClerc presented plans for the Pearl District last night.(Photos © J. Maus) After NW Lovejoy was decommissioned as a bikeway by the city, NW Marshall Street was supposed to take its place. The Bureau of Transportation added sharrows, smoothed out cobblestones, and installed signage and pavement markings to direct bicycle traffic from … Read more
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