City debuts new ‘Tuff Curb’ to create physical separation for bikeways
This should do the trick. More separation is in our future!
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City looks for alternatives to door-zone bike lane on new street in South Waterfront
Well, this would definitely be odd if it happened.
Comment of the Week: Making Beaverton the country’s #1 biking suburb
Comfortable biking in suburbs arguably holds even more potential than it does in older, denser cities.
Eugene students’ proposed downtown-to-campus bikeway moving forward
A student-driven project in Eugene, intended to create a more comfortable and intuitive link between the University of Oregon campus and downtown Eugene seems to be on its way to construction.
‘America’s Bicycle Capital’? A visitor is unimpressed – and worried for us
The problem isn’t that Portland doesn’t like bikes any more. It’s that the city doesn’t seem to feel that being bike-friendly requires any difficult decisions.
Guess who didn’t make list of America’s top 10 protected bikeways?
In the latest sign that Portland’s lead as America’s best cycling city is dwindling, we were completely left out of a list of the year’s top 10 protected bikeways published by People for Bikes yesterday. People for Bikes (formerly known as Bikes Belong) is an industry-funded advocacy group that also runs the Green Lane Project, … Read more
County adds plastic ‘candlestick’ bollards to Hawthorne viaduct
New plastic bollards installed by the County today. This photo was taken west of the SE Grand intersection and just before the McLoughlin Blvd off-ramp.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Six lessons for Portland from the League’s new ‘Women Bike’ report
Common, but not quite common enough.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Even in Portland, people who really ought to know better (links to FB) still claim now and then that biking is a thing for young dudes. Still, in a town where only 31 percent of people on bikes tend to be female (it’s about 25 percent … Read more
When should streets use sharrows, painted lanes and separation? (graphics)
Where, exactly, do sharrows belong?(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Update: See below for a few other examples of graphics that try to answer this question. There’s an interesting, useful bit of transportation wonkery in The Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s “Blueprint for World-Class Cycling” that came out this week: a visual guide to which sort of streets should … Read more
Once again, bike lane bollards torn out by auto traffic on NW Lovejoy
A man riding down NW Lovejoy yesterday, alongside what used to be plastic bollards.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) It looks like PBOT will have to head back to the drawing board in their effort to create separation between bike and auto traffic on the NW Lovejoy ramp leading down from the Broadway Bridge. About a month … Read more
PBOT installs bollards to protect Lovejoy ramp bike lane – Updated
New plastic bollards help separate auto and bike traffic — and eliminate the dreaded “track straddle” on the Lovejoy ramp heading into the Pearl District. – More photos below –