There are some excellent multi-use trails in and around Portland. The Springwater Corridor comes to mind, for example: over 20 miles of awesome, paved, off-street path that will take you all the way from Portland to Boring. The Springwater’s kind of a pathy institution, a sort of jogging-walking-biking superhighway on …
A few weeks ago, I biked out to Oxbow Park for a friend’s birthday. Since it’s so much more lovely, I always take the longer Springwater Corridor out there instead of SE Division St–and this time, when I got to the end of the paved section, I saw this: I’ve …
I’m a little incensed whenever I come to bike infrastructure that looks like this: (not 20 feet before, there’d been an actual bike lane. Then suddenly it’s a turn lane for cars too?) East of 82nd Avenue, SE Division actually has fairly nice bike lanes in both directions. They’re a …
I don’t want to sound like Ms-I’m-so-entitled here, but it really annoys me when roads are paved like this: This is not exactly bike friendly. Granted, at least that part way off to the right is sort of pavement, but the super-groovy, rattles-your-bones, collects-all-the-glass sort of pavement we’re talking here …
