The city is closing about 10 km of streets to vehicle traffic in Northeast #Portland from 11:00 to 16:00 today for the second Parkways event where people can #bike, #walk, or otherwise use the roads without having to worry about cars.
There will be live music, vendors, information, and free basic bike tuneups along the route. I wish I could go, but I’m working today.
9am tomorrow "join the Steel Bridge Skatepark Coalition at City Hall as we testify in favor of building a welcoming, inclusive, and public downtown #skatepark for skaters of all abilities and backgrounds to enjoy!" #pdxBikes#pdxSkates#skateboarding#Portland#pedalPalooza (Wed, Jun 21)
Happy solstice! We’re 3 weeks into #BikeSummer but (solar) summer is just beginning. Check out the solstice-focused #bikeFun happening tonight and tomorrow, including an all-nighter tonight!
11:45 Thurs #Portland#pdxBikes#ClimateAction ride/march across Hawthorne Bridge
from Multnomah County Building at 501 SE Hawthorne (after 10:15 board meeting)
wear red, bring kids & grandkids + signs showing your support for policy action and holding big oil accountable
🚨 STOP ODOT’S BACKROOM HEIST, HELP US RIGHT-SIZE INTERSTATE BRIDGE INVESTMENT
The freeway lobbyists have included a $1 billion allocation of General Obligation Bond funds for the proposed Interstate Bridge Replacement in an amendment to House Bill 5005. This amendment dropped over the holiday weekend, a day before two work session votes on the legislation, the week before session ends. #ORleg#ORpol#NoMoreFreeways#ClimateAction#Portland#pdxBikes
What would it take for cities to retrofit or supplement their #bike counters with #eBike detectors? The growth of #eBikes for #transportation trips should not be underestimated. Maybe an EMF or heat signature? How do the standard ones distinguish multiple bikes at once? #pdxBikes#bikeTooter
new to Portland? New to Biking in Portland? New to #Pedalpalooza Bike Summer? This is the ride for you! ... casual and no-drop tour of PDX along greenways ... meet and talk with fellow riders, learn about Pedalpalooza's past, get tips for riding!
For folks who use an e-cargo bike as their primary mode of transit, what do you do when you have a mechanical issue on the road and don’t have the tools to fix it? #biketooter#ebike#pdxBikes
#PBOT Bicycle advisory committee presentation about "#ClimateEmergency declaration" work "depending on funding" is so totally absurd. #pdxBikes save you money, cars cost obscene amounts of money to serve... Totally bullshit strategy that you'll somehow get people out of their cars without cutting back on how much debt you rack up encouraging them to drive 🤡 💸 💸 💸 #InducedDemand
re: why #Portland can't have nice things: The trick is to make each "ride your bike in relatively car-free safety" event an expensive optional line-item requiring lots of money for "traffic control", but frame as unavoidable the $2M+/day we spend letting cars have free reign of the entire system for the other 362 days.
The @bikeloudpdx hack night reporting work is in the process of growing a database to feed the #open311 portal or some #BikeLaneUprising-ish kind of map and complain tool, that we're going to have to host ourselves to be sure the data is there when somebody needs it to sue the state for #ODOTGTFOpdx, or city of #Portland for #PBOT's deference to cars and finger-pointing about how they can't do safety because politics and "please crack open that General Fund piggy bank for us 🤲 ". 📏 🤓 🚘 🚘 🚘 🚘 🙃
Don't miss: helmets and armbands from PBOT, but still not a connected bike network to ride home on #pdxBikes 😞 "Southwest Neighborhood Bike Fair is a free, family-friendly event that includes biking lessons for children, learn-to-ride coaching for adults, quick-fix bike repair, and e-bike demos. Hosted in partnership with the Mittleman Jewish Community Center and Community Cycling Center.
Sunday, July 23 from 9:00 am to noon at MJCC https://bit.ly/swbikefair ."
People who say they need a car because it rains sometimes, have you tried just carrying an umbrella or dressing your #eBike as one? I just rode a 1.5 miles round trip to pickup the kid from school, and my shoes were completely dry the whole time. Keep the DOTs' filthy road water off of you and getting slightly sprinkled with rain is fine. #Portland#pdxBikes#bikeTooter#pdxtst