Thoughts and photos from North Portland Sunday Parkways
Riding a completely carfree N Willamette Blvd was sheer bliss.– Gallery – (Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Sunday Parkways
Welcome to our Sunday Parkways story archives.
This open streets event began in 2008 and is managed by the Portland Bureau of Transportation. Browse the headlines below for all our Sunday Parkways event recaps, news items, and photo galleries.
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Sunday Parkways heads to North Portland for fifth year
This is what the largest Sunday Parkways crowd ever looks like.— See photos from the 2008 edition below. —(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Over 28,000 turn out for first Sunday Parkways of the year
NE Simpson Street in the Cully neighborhood has never seen bike traffic like this before!(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Sunday Parkways got off to a great start yesterday as throngs of Portlanders enjoyed the warm sun and rolled through eight miles of carfree northeast neighborhoods.
Local store to hold special shopping day in support of Sunday Parkways
A locally owned business in Northeast Portland is doing its part to support Sunday Parkways. As we all know, despite being one of our city’s most cherished traditions, Sunday Parkways is in need of funding help. City Council has made it clear that they do not have the appetite to fund it to the extent … Read more
City launches ‘Every Dollar Counts’ campaign to raise money for Sunday Parkways
A ways to go before May 13th. Sunday Parkways needs our help. Yes, the transformative, widely loved, amazing community event that has endeared itself to our city since it first happened in 2008, is getting less love from the City budget these days. That means PBOT and their presenting sponsor Kaiser Permanente are hitting the … Read more
2012 Sunday Parkways details unveiled: Coming to SW Portland for first time ever
PBOT has decided to fully close Willamette Blvd to auto traffic.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Mayor Sam Adams used his State of the City address to announce that he remains committed to five Sunday Parkways events this year. He also announced that, for the first time ever, the popular event will be held in Southwest Portland. … Read more
Study: Health benefits outweigh costs of ciclovia events
Worth every penny.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland.org) Ciclovias, the global term for what we call Sunday Parkways here in Portland, are nothing short of a revolution. Started in Latin America in the 1960s and made widely known by Bogota, Colombia, the events have spread like wildfire across North America in the last decade. But with city … Read more
Rain doesn’t dampen Sunday Parkways spirit
Sheets of rain didn’t stop big crowds from showing up to Sunday Parkways Northeast.(Photos © J. Maus)
Southeast Sunday Parkways recap: How’d it go for you?
It was Southeast Portland’s turn to enjoy the Sunday Parkways splendor.(Photos © J. Maus)
Sunday Parkways coming to Southeast Portland this weekend
People enjoying carfree streets at the 2010 Sunday Parkways Southeast.(Photo © J. Maus)
Downtown basks in Sunday Parkways spotlight
Portlanders jumped at the chance to enjoy sun and carfree streets.(Photos © J. Maus)
Parkways set to take over downtown Sunday
The scene on NW 13th during last year’s event. Expect bigger crowds if the sun holds out through the weekend.(Photos © J. Maus)