“The Inner Eastside is rich in public #transit; in walkable, bikeable jobs and services; in mature, beloved street trees. Allowing four floors and corner stores to exist anywhere in these neighborhoods is a natural, efficient way for #Portland to share those assets while it keeps evolving and growing."
Volunteers from @bikeloudpdx shouldn't need to stand in front of #PBOT contractors' trucks to stop them from removing #pdxBikes infrastructure, but that's where we are with the current dysfunction at city hall. (Yes, even while they scramble to fill a budget hole that will cost union jobs.) Get involved and let #Portland's elected officials know that #ClimateAction, #SafeStreets & #VisionZero are popular + too important to trade for a few free on-street #parking spaces.
"Just today I biked on the new protected bike lanes on SW Broadway and one block was so full of leaves and water that I had to leave the lane and merge into a shared lane... Dirty bike lanes have been a perennial problem and the #Portland transportation bureau has yet to offer a strategy or plan to tackle it." #PBOT#pdxBikes 2021, and this year too.
What an absurd waste of city resources to grind off a #pdxBikes lane because some NIMBY with the commissioner's phone number didn't like it. #PBOT should be grinding off the yellow centerlines, which nobody was consulted on. #Vision60or70something#PredatoryDelay#DefundDOTs
We are ashamed our city is working to remove critical #pdxBikes infrastructure already built and spending their valuable resources on this removal over the much needed and overdue work to make our most dangerous streets safer. In the middle of a traffic violence epidemic, in the middle of #PBOT's own budget crisis.
When was the outreach process about the yellow centerline paint and speeding cars? #ClimateCrisis#VisionZero
Join us tonight for the BikeLoud Action Mixer work session 6-9 at Ankeny Tap and Table after BikePortland happy hour. Bring your laptop, notebook, skills, and ideas to collaborate with others on #pdxBikes political action and community activities. https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-18126
North Portland #pdxBikes tonight if you can show up at 7pm UPNA general meeting for the Willamette bike lanes project on the agenda, Chili Center on UP campus
Monthly meeting on zoom at 6 tonight. Join us and learn how you can help make #Portland bikeways good enough to handle 1/4 of trips, to meet our #ClimateAction, #VisionZero, and other city goals. #pdxBikes
How do people get out of the aerial tram if it gets stuck mid-trip? Ride your bike up Terwilliger on Sunday morning and see the annual evacuation test, with trained professionals getting lowered out of the tram as test passengers, scheduled 9am-noon. #Portland#pdx#pdxBikes#transit#AerialTram#FirstResponders
“It’s a beautiful amenity for our guests and our associates, and it’s right in front of our hotel.”
"Maldonado told me she doesn’t want her establishment to be filled with only tourists and that having locals spend time in their iconic library room, tavern, and restaurant, is a key part of their future success." #pdxBikes#Portland#swBroadway#HeathmanHotel
"The Oregon #MotorVoter (OMV) registration law took effect on January 1, 2016, making #Oregon the first state in the nation to implement automatic #voterRegistration [for drivers]" and then they mail you a ballot, but how do we get non-drivers to vote? #pdxBikes#ORpol
ran out of #eBikes battery on the tandem coming home from Tigard, tried both of us pedaling on what few downhills with ~200W regen but that only amounted to maybe a few minutes total. The baserunner did give us maybe 100W on Multnomah + bits of climb after that, but it was, overall, a sweaty ordeal. I have not been keeping this one parked on the charger, since we've been experimenting with the regen setup, need to plan ahead better if it's not always fully charged. 😅 💦 #pdxBikes#BikeTooter
Did you miss my ride about #Portland's five layers of govt and #STARvoting on the hottest Sunday of the summer? Come to the Hottest Sunday of the Fall Govt and Voting ride! #pdxBikes#bikeFun#ORpol#pdx An easy ride along the river and back through inner SE, starting from City Hall at 11:30am.
#PBOT director said the #swBroadway#pdxBikes lane is "mired with controversy." 🙄 which is code for commissioner mapps is trying to woo the business association, or roughly 3-5 millionaires. Regular #Portland#transportation politics, for and by people with their brains stuck in traffic.
#PBOT, the bureau of transportation, could not figure out how to make this part a bus lane, and the bike lane is the rightmost 3 inches on the white stripe unless you want to chip your teeth riding over that culvert. #pdxBikes#PDX#BusLanes