The relationship between streetcar, housing, and streetcar ridership
Study: Along Portland’s streetcar route, each new housing unit adds a regular streetcar rider
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One-third of biking injuries in Toronto involve streetcar tracks, study finds
It’s the first academic study in North America dedicated specifically to the danger of streetcar tracks to people biking.
The case for streetcar as pro-bike infrastructure
Streetcars might actually be the very best sort of public transit at improving biking.
Will Portland Streetcar ever find a way to prevent bike-rail crashes?
Twelve years after Portland Streetcar put rails onto to city streets, it’s still a Portland rite of passage to crash your bike on its tracks — and it’s still a maddening problem for the handful of people trying to solve it.
Portland Streetcar will give free rides during Broadway Bridge closure
Get free rides during next week’s closure.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) The impending closure of the sidepaths on the Broadway Bridge next week has started a lot of discussions about how the Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) handles traffic mitigation during construction. We have reported on the bicycling aspect of the closure; but many people are now … Read more
Portland Streetcar Inc. releases “When I Ride” safety video
Still from “When I Ride” video.– Watch it below- With the big grand opening of the new eastside/central city loop extension of the streetcar being this weekend, Portland Streetcar Inc. (PSI) has just unveiled a new safety video. The video features (and is narrated by) Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) Advocacy Director Gerik Kranksy; but it … Read more
Photos and notes from my ride on the new streetcar line
I got a new view of the Pearl District today from inside the yet-to-be-opened eastside streetcar line.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Project to move streetcar pole on Broadway Bridge comes with closures
Remember that pesky streetcar utility pole placed in the bike path on the Broadway Bridge? The project to move it will start next week and Portland Streetcar will close parts of the bridge during the work. See more info below: Portland Streetcar Construction Advisory
Guest Article: Getting creative to move a pole on the Broadway Bridge
It will be moved.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) [Publisher’s note: As an update to a story we covered several times last month, I’ve accepted a guest article from Chris Smith explaining his successful effort to have a streetcar pole on the Broadway Bridge moved out of the way of bike traffic. Smith is a well known … Read more
Pole update: Streetcar Director weighs in, County doesn’t like it either
The pole has narrowed the busy entrance onto the Broadway Bridge.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
No streetcar to Lake Oswego? How about a bikeway?
Could the route for the streetcarbecome a bicycle highway?(Image: Metro) After what the Oregonian called “persistent doubts from suburban taxpayers and a wealthy enclave of homeowners” the Lake Oswego streetcar project is on the rocks. Concerns about construction and operating costs of the streetcar were the reasons for its demise, but over $2 million has … Read more
The Oregonian’s commute columnist weighs in on Broadway Bridge pole issue
A new pole for the streetcar (marked with orange/white stripes) has narrowed the entry to the Broadway Bridge path.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) As the story unfolds about how and why Portland Streetcar Inc. installed a utility pole on the Broadway Bridge bike/walk path, it is becoming more clear that they made a bad move. We’ll … Read more