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5 days ago · Weekend Event Guide: Gateway Green clean-up, goats, and more. All the best things to do by bike this weekend… sponsored by Timur Ender for City Council District 1. Rides/Events Weekend Event Guide. November 8, 2024. Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)
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Let’s build it! Portland’s Protected Bike Lane Design Guide is finally ...
Oct 15, 2021 · Let’s build it! Portland’s Protected Bike Lane Design Guide is finally out. The new guide tells us we could build a physically-protected lane (like the one in the graphic on the left) on East Burnside between Couch and 11th for as little as $224,000. At long last, Portland has an official guidebook to build out its protected bike lane network.
Try these five great bike rides, curated by the City of Portland
Apr 22, 2021 · START/END: Gateway Discovery Park (NE 106th Ave and NE Halsey St). 6 miles; flat, some paved trails, short sections with bike lanes on busier streets. North Greeley and Greenways Ride. This 8-mile North Portland ride offers a little bit of everything. Discover Neighborhood Greenways of Albina and Arbor Lodge, the Bryant St bike and pedestrian ...
The 23 Portland parks primed for new bike trails and riding areas
May 17, 2023 · Farragut Park – 14 acres. A small bicycle park (about 5,000 to 10,000 sf). Bicycle parks have areas for family recreation and skill building. A natural surface loop trail for family-friendly cycling, walking and running. Building a bicycle park or trail here will require additional planning and community input.
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Oct 31, 2024 · City survey asks what Portlanders think about traffic safety, enforcement cameras. It’s a way to take the public’s temperature on traffic safety and learn perceptions as camera program grows. Enforcement News. October 30, 2024. Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)
Portland will add 500 bikes to Biketown bike share system
Apr 21, 2023 · PBOT launched these new e-bikes in 2020 with just 500 of them and a total fleet size of 1,000 bikes. So we’ve doubled the size of the fleet in less than three years. That might seem like a lot, but the system needs a lot more than 2,000 bikes to reach its full potential. PBOT has promised to have 3,000 to 4,000 bikes in the system by 2024.
PBOT shares progress report on 2030 bike plan – BikePortland
Sep 11, 2019 · The report says PBOT has completed just 59 action items (26%) and is currently working on 88 (39%) of them. When it comes to progress toward our bicycle use goal, the results half-way toward 2030 do not look good. According to the US Census, the percentage of Portlanders who biked to work in 2009 (the year before Bike Plan adoption) was 5.8%.
Drivers are figuring out Portland’s new advisory bike lanes (video)
Aug 12, 2022 · As we first reported back in May, two new examples have emerged that are Portland’s best-ever attempts at true advisory bike lanes. They are located on NE 43rd north of Sandy and on NE 53rd over I-84. As you can see in the video and photos (below), the design is relatively straightforward. These are bike lanes, but they have skip-striping to ...