4/21: Hello readers and friends. I'm still recovering from a surgery I had on 4/11, so I'm unable to attend events and do typical coverage. I'll post as I can and should improve day-by-day. Thanks for all your support 🙏. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
Businesses along SW Stark.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) One of the Great Myths that somehow continues to follow urban bicycling around is that when you redesign a street to improve bike access, it will automatically be bad for adjacent businesses. This is of course completely absurd. But even with studies and common sense easily disproving such … Read more
Greeeeeen.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
The green paint on SW Stark and Oak bike lanes is all in. It’s impressive; but it’s only paint. Will it actually work?(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Before (left) and after images of SW Stark.(Photos: PBOT)
The buffered bike lanes on SW Stark — which are supposed to be bike-only — don’t work at all.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) It’s been about three months since I shared my photos and thoughts about the buffered bike lanes on SW Stark street, so I figured it was time for an update. Back then I … Read more
PBOT will look to prevent this type of illegal driving.(Photo © J. Maus) The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has announced that they will analyze traffic behavior on the buffered bike lanes on SW Stark and could make changes to the street to improve bike access by the end of the summer. On … Read more
The entry to SW Stark east of 4th Ave as seen from my office window.(Photos © J. Maus) When the Portland Mayor Sam Adams announced new buffered bike lanes coming to two downtown streets back in May of 2009 there was talk of “innovation” and making bikeways appealing to the “interested but concerned” demographic. Adams … Read more
This drawing shows design of new buffered bike lanes. Notice how a lane of motor-vehicle traffic has been re-purposed and will now be used for bike traffic.