Tag: 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
September 24, 2024

Taking the train to Portland with my kid and a folding bike

As something of a last hurrah before the school year began, my kid and I took a trip down to Portland for no purpose other than to have fun. So we needed to travel by what may be my favorite method: Taking the train with a folding bicycle. Our Brompton folding bike is not just…
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tagged: amtrak cascades, brompton, portland
July 31, 2014

It’s time to give Summer Streets and Bicycle Sunday an energizing makeover

People love Summer Streets, Seattle’s summertime open streets events on neighborhood commercial streets in Greenwood, Alki, Ballard and Rainier Valley. They also love Bicycle Sunday, Seattle’s innovative open streets event that has been making sections of Lake Washington Boulevard car-free for a handful of Sundays every summer for decades. Now, imagine if next year Seattle…
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tagged: bicycle sunday, open streets, portland, sally bagshaw, summer parkways, summer streets
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
August 27, 2013

Multimodal book tour stop #1: Portland

I am in Portland, the first stop on a multimodal book tour I am taking for the next couple weeks with my partner Kelli Refer. She is promoting her book Pedal, Stretch, Breathe: The Yoga of Bicycling, which just arrived from the printer. Our goal is to travel all around the Pacific Northwest combining trains,…
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tagged: bicycle sunday, kelli refer, multimodal book tour 2013, pedal stretch breathe, portland, summer streets, sunday parkways
July 29, 2013

Amtrak Cascades trains can now carry more bikes

Amtrak’s Cascades trains can now carry ten bikes, a small but potentially trip-saving change for a route that connects some of the continent’s bikiest cities. The train connects Vancouver, BC, to Eugene, passing through Bellingham, Seattle and Portland. The fact that the train carries any non-boxed bikes at all is enough to make east coasters…
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tagged: amtrak cascades, portland, vancouver