A cartoon frog wants to help stoke cycling in Portland
We need everyone — even a cycling frog — to help us get ridership back up.
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We need everyone — even a cycling frog — to help us get ridership back up.
A grassroots report will look to raise the profile of signage as a key tool to boost bike ridership.
Such a waste. You cannot stop progress.
The signs are part of PBOT’s Gateway to Opportunity project.
Standardized signs coming to more paths and trails around the region.
You share the road. No YOU share the road.
Hoping to create a “Pedestrian Priority Zone” on Waterfront Park path, new signs from the Parks Bureau will encourage fast riders to use Naito instead.
New warning signs on Interstate Ave are intended to warn road users about the presence of bicycle riders.
ODOT has installed 36 new signs to help make it easier for bike traffic to navigate the shared-use path between Delta Park, the Marine Drive interchange, and the I-5 Bridge. As promised, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has installed 36 new signs on the bike path between Delta Park and the I-5 bridge. I … Read more
Mock-up of one of 29 new signs created by ODOT to guide bike traffic near I-5 bridge. Last week we reported on unauthorized signage near the I-5 Bridge that was installed by a citizen activist to help bike traffic navigate the winding paths to Vancouver. The person who painted the stencils and posted laminated maps … Read more
This sign was posted on NW Lower River Road in Vancouver. It has since been removed.(Photos: Marcus Griffith) For the third time this month, an unauthorized road sign has been discovered in the greater Portland metro area; and the trend has now hopped across the Columbia River into Vancouver.
These new yield markings have been installed to warn bike riders of potential cross traffic.(Photos © J. Maus)
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