Tag: portland

December 17, 2010

Ballard’s Bikeability: Could Portland’s lessons work well there?

In April, Adam Parast wrote a post for Seattle Transit Blog about a GIS project he had done to analyze a city’s bikeability. The project is full of fantastic information and pondering about what it means for a city or a neighborhood to be bikeable, and how Seattle’s challenges compare to a city that is…
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tagged: ballard, ballard news tribune, islands of bikeablility, portland, seattle transit blog
November 8, 2010

Tuesday: Portland bike planner Mia Birk to talk at REI – UPDATED

UPDATE: The event starts at 7, not at 7:30 as we and other sites had reported. Do you have Portland bike envy? (if you don’t, watch this) Well, Tuesday is your chance to hear Mia Birk, who led much of Portland’s bike infrastructure investments, speak in Seattle. She is promoting her new book “Joyride: Pedaling…
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tagged: mia birk, portland
October 20, 2010

Portland takes the ‘bad ass’ out of biking, part 3: The Community Cycling Center

It was love at first sight. We were walking down Alberta, peeking into shops, when I turned around and saw this mural. I was drawn to it like a junebug to a lightbulb. In part three of our series about how Portland makes it so you don’t need to be a bad ass to ride…
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tagged: barriers to biking, community cycling center, portland, portland takes the bad ass out of biking
October 19, 2010

Portland takes the ‘bad ass’ out of biking, part 2: PBOT proposes 20 mph speed limits

In part two of this short series about Portland’s biking infrastructure, and how it lets you ride bikes without the need to be a bad ass all the time, we’ll look at a proposal by the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) to lower the speed limits on their bike boulevards to 20 mph.
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tagged: 20’s plenty, portland, portland takes the bad ass out of biking
October 18, 2010

Portland takes the ‘bad ass’ out of biking, part 1: The Going St bicycle boulevard

While riding around Portland this weekend (my first time seeing the city by bike), I came to one big conclusion: Seattle bikers are bad asses. Biking in Portland is so easy that there is hardly any excuse not to bike (before you get upset, I’m joking. Portland bikers are bad asses, too). The things Portland has…
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tagged: bike boulevards, going street, portland, portland takes the bad ass out of biking
September 8, 2010

‘Free Ice Cream for Bike Lane Builders’

BikePortland has a cheery report today about a group of appreciative bikers who are on a mission to bring cool treats to workers on bike infrastructure projects. Perhaps we could do something similar for our bike project workers. After all, they are doing important work. Might as well bring them ice cream to show our…
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tagged: bike lanes, bike portland, portland, workers