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Sunday Parkways
Every year, Portland does a number of what we call Sunday Parkways, in which we pick one Sunday per event, and close a bunch of streets to cars, creating a route through a part of the city along which you … Continue reading
Interactive Public Space
As reported by Bike Portland yesterday, TriMet, the company which manages the public transportation in Portland, is considering an idea for the bike path on the new bridge across the river which would put small grooves in part of the … Continue reading
Turning freeways into parks
I was just recently remembering that Portland’s waterfront park used to be an expressway, designed by good old Robert Moses, and I thought it would be interesting to do a post about this. Back in the 1970′s, citizens of Portland, … Continue reading
How do you experience your city?
Casually, relaxed, a bit of breeze in your hair? Out to relax in the park? Calmly soaking up the sunshine? Cruising around with someone you love? Gazing out at the river as you make your way home over the bridge? … Continue reading
growing pains
Especially since the weather has improved this spring, Portland has seen a huge upshoot in the level of bicycle traffic around town. During rush hour and on weekends you can find large flocks of people on bicycles making their way … Continue reading
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How do we make travel safer?
I don’t know how much this gets talked about in most of the country, but it seems to be a big topic in Portland. How do we make our city safer for people to get around in? I think one … Continue reading
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bikes are not the solution – part II
First, a little background about the Hawthorne Bridge: As you can see, there are two car lanes in the middle, a concrete/steel barrier, another car lane on the outside on each side, and then a 10 foot pedestrian/bicycle path on … Continue reading
bikes are not the solution…
…to all our traffic issues. This was illustrated to me rather clearly by a particular cyclist this morning whom I passed twice (giving her several feet of space both times) coming out of stoplights, because she couldn’t get her clip-less … Continue reading
what ride would you choose?
The other day, Jay Graves, Mia Birk and Jonathan Nicholas presented at Portland City Club, the topic was “It’s All About the Bike” (mp3 of the presentation is here). At the end, one of the questions that was asked by … Continue reading
Hello Spring!
Well, among other things, we have a city full of people who are high on Vitamin D production with all the recent sun we’ve been having. As I mentioned, my wife and I took a ride down to the Portland … Continue reading
