Hazmat situation on Springwater raises air quality concerns (again)
For the second time since November of last year, people who bike on the Springwater Corridor (in blue) have raised concerns about emissions from nearby factories.
Southeast
Housing development planned on Ankeny bikeway
Drawing of new senior housing planned for corner of SE 12th and Ankeny. This morning, a reader tipped us off about a property development that could have an impact on one of Portland’s busiest bikeways, SE Ankeny Blvd. A permit request (PDF) submitted to the City’s Bureau of Development Services says the Foursquare Gospel Church … Read more
Update on progress of bike boulevard project in Sellwood
Detail of new “channelizing islands” recently installed on SE Spokane St.(Photos © Adams Carroll) The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation is just weeks away from unveiling one of the most important bike-related infrastructure projects in years. Their new bike boulevard on SE Spokane Street in Sellwood is the first of their “next generation” bike … Read more
Enjoy the lights on a carfree Peacock Lane on December 14th
Enjoying a carfree Peacock Lane.(Photo by Greg Raisman) A longstanding holiday institution in Portland is taking a stroll — or, more prevalently, a slow, idling drive — down the one-block Peacock Lane to gaze at the elaborate holiday light displays that residents drape over their houses, trees, and yards. Last year for the first time, … Read more
The Division Streetscape Project aims to create “green main street”
An example of a curb extensionwith a bioswale (at SE Clay and 11th)(Photo © J. Maus) The city plans to turn SE Division Street into a “green main street” between SE 6th and SE 39th. Division Streetscape and Reconstruction project manager Elizabeth Mahon presented draft intersection redesign plans to the city’s Bicycle Advisory Committee last … Read more
Join us south of the border for our next Get Together in Milwaukie
The Sellwood Bridge affects the bikeability of Milwaukie. (Photo © J. Maus) We’ll be bringing our next BikePortland Get Together event to Milwaukie, Oregon, our neighbor to the immediate south. Anyone who lives, works, commutes, rides through, or otherwise spends time in Milwaukie (or its general vicinity) is invited to join us. Milwaukie seems to … Read more
Join us for our next Get Together in Powellhurst
A group merge during a Bicycle AdvisoryCommittee tour of east Portland last July.(Photo © J. Maus) You’re invited to our next BikePortland Neighborhood Get Together in the Powellhurst neighborhood of outer Southeast Portland — that’s right, we’re going east of I-205. Anyone who lives, works, commutes, or otherwise spends time in outer Southeast Portland is … Read more
Bureau of Planning: We need more time to look at 7 Corners
The Bureau of Planning has canceled a community workshop that would have began a discussion about a preferred strategy to tackle a re-design of the 7 Corners intersection (where SE Division, Ladd, 20th, and 21st streets converge).
Update: Police search for hit-and-run suspect
Click for map A 25-year-old man riding a bicycle was struck from behind while riding sounthbound on SE 39th Ave. just north of Powell Blvd. (map) in Southeast Portland at around 2:45 am this morning. The hit-and-run incident left Cox with non life-threatening injuries but witnesses told KATU-TV that he was “pretty banged up”. UPDATE: … Read more