Topic: city of portland

The new bike box at W. Burnside and 14th.Video below(Photos © J. Maus) On Monday, the city of Portland installed a bike box in the SE corner of W. Burnside and 14th streets in downtown Portland — the same intersection where Tracey Sparling was killed nine months ago. This is the eighth bike box the City has...

The City of Portland has "priced" that $66.6 million of "urban renewal" debt that it's loading on this week for the so-called "South Park Blocks" district. And the numbers we've been given by the city's debt manager are pretty sobering: Yields on the $34.58 million taxable Series A maturing 2009 to 2019 ranged from 4.032% to 6.081%. The true interest cost (TIC) was 6.003%. Yields on the $32.02...

A City of Portland tanker truck with new side underrun guard.More images(Photos © J. Maus) A bike safety initiative kicked off back in March within the City of Portland's Bureau of Maintenance is starting to manifest on the streets. A closer look. While pedaling home the other day, I spotted a side underrun guard installed on a large...

"There are a lot of [bike-sharing] systems out there and we really want to pick the best model."-Shoshanah Oppenheim, transportation policy aide for Commissioner Adams With the announcement last week that the City of Portland has canceled their search for a bike-sharing vendor, some are wondering what's next in Portland's public-bike future. Far from giving up on...

The City of Portland had a bond sale scheduled for yesterday, but now it's been rescheduled for next Tuesday. Did somebody not want the deal on their books until the third quarter, which starts that day? Anyway, it's more insane borrowing for "urban renewal" -- this time for the "South Park Blocks" district -- kind of a misleading name when you take a look at the map. Did you...

How many bikers do you see?(Photo © J. Maus) The City of Portland is expanding the scope of their annual bike counts and they need volunteers to help them do it. Denver Igarta, a transportation planner with PDOT, says they want to cover 140 locations this year. That's an increase over the 98 locations...

At least, they linked to my writeup of Sunday Parkways in the sidebar of the official event web page. I believe that's a first for this blog. Maybe they'll start linking to more of my city transportation stories. D'ya...