Tag: bike portland

October 2, 2024

Bike Portland answers my question: Where are the downtown Portland protected bike lanes?

Last week, I published a story recapping a wonderful train plus folding bike trip my kid and I took to Portland shortly before the start of the school year. Though we had a great time biking around and exploring the city together, I was surprised by the lack of complete and connected protected bike lanes…
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tagged: bike portland, jonathan maus, portland
June 5, 2023

Oregon considers bill to make it easier to fund school bike buses

Transportation is a major challenge for school districts across the country, and Seattle is no exception. Bus driver availability and funding is a major deciding factor setting school walk zones and start times. Organizing student transportation is a huge undertaking, and lacking transportation can be a barrier for school access to some families. House Bill…
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tagged: bike bus, bike portland, bike to school, oregon, sam balto, seattle public schools
March 13, 2014

City building and planning neighborhood greenways in all corners of the city this year

The city is catching its groove on neighborhood greenways this year, setting a pace for installing and planning them in all corners of the city simultaneously. While neighborhood greenways so far have been somewhat experimental and one-off projects, 2014 is set to be the year where — with the help of SDOT Community Liaisons Dawn…
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tagged: bike portland, dawn schellenberg, neighborhood greenways, portland, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways
October 30, 2013

Portland has upgraded 163 car parking spaces to create 1,644 bike spots

Portland Now Has 100 Street Bike Corrals! from Streetfilms on Vimeo. The City of Portland has hit a milestone: 100 bike corrals installed, and as many businesses are still clamoring for one near them. Bike Portland presents the number like this: The city replaced 163 car parking spaces with 1,644 bike parking spaces. That seems…
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tagged: bike corrals, bike parking, bike portland, on-street bike parking, streetfilms
October 16, 2012

PDX Study: Downhill bike boxes may increase collisions

A multi-year study of bike-involved collisions at Portland intersections that have bike boxes has returned mixed results showing only minimal reductions in collisions at some intersections and increases at others. The results have prompted the city to rethink some of the design elements around bike boxes particularly when they are in the downhill direction. The…
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tagged: bike boxes, bike portland, pbot, portland
February 6, 2012

Bike Portland: Blumenauer sees House anti-transit, biking and walking bill as test

“This is chance to prove that the [bike] movement is real,” bike-friendly US House legislator from Oregon Earl Blumenauer told Bike Portland as GOP lawmakers push a much-maligned transportation bill through the US House (including Dave Reichert of Washington’s 8th District, covering much of King and Pierce Counties including most of the Eastside). Changes currently…
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tagged: bike portland, earl blumenauer, federal government