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Tag Archives: traffic
Unintended Side Effects
As most people know, Portland has focused its efforts for accommodating bicycles on what we are now calling ‘neighborhood greenways’ – that is, neighborhood streets, through residential areas, which have lower automobile traffic. This is in contrast to providing bicycle … Continue reading
The Need for Flexible Space
To go along with my (relatively) recent post about how we perceive right of way and other people taking it, I was thinking more about why it’s important to provide space for bicycles that is more flexible than that provided … Continue reading
Traffic Patterns: Are Others “Taking” Your Right of Way?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what I consider kind of a strange behavior pattern that I notice a lot here, amongst both people riding bicycles and people driving cars. That behavior pattern is one in which a person … Continue reading
Traffic Turmoil
The medical university that I work for is largely on top of a hill, with really only two good routes to get to it from the main part of Portland. There are, I believe, thousands of employees here every day, … Continue reading
Just for bicycles?
There is a lot of hype and controversy surrounding street developments that favor slower speeds and accommodation of non-motorized means of travel. People get up-in-arms about how the city is catering to “those people” who supposedly don’t pay for the … Continue reading
Traffic safety, and our focus on issues from a strictly bicycling perspective
Yesterday BikePortland posted about a ride of silence to mourn the cyclists who have been killed in traffic in the U.S. While I think it is important for this point to be made, and for people to see and honestly … Continue reading
Bikey stoplights
I posted before about some of the “Except Bicycles” signs around Portland, one of them being on this contra-flow bike lane, where the automobile traffic is moving towards the camera, but the bike lane allows bicycles to go the other … Continue reading
Temporary Lanes
The first section of the Eastside Streetcar tracks have been laid, starting from the North end, and now preparation is happening further down Grand Avenue for more tracks to be laid. Currently, they are working on the sewers at the … Continue reading
Positive Reinforcement
Often it’s the simple things that make a big difference, and one of the most frustrating things as a cyclist is that often it is impossible to trigger traffic signals with a bicycle. This means you have to get off … Continue reading
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
