Portland Bicycle Plan for 2030
Bicycling creates safer streets, reduces the causes of global climate change, promotes a healthy environment, and limits the effects and health care costs related to inactivity. It provides equity and access to viable, affordable transportation options and creates fun, vibrant, and livable neighborhoods. It supports Portland’s economy and is a sound investment. For all these reasons, the City of Portland is on the verge of adopting a new plan for bicycling, the Portland Bicycle Plan for 2030.
A hearing before City Council to adopt the plan has been set for Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 2:00 p.m., time certain.
The hearing is a total show trial. On the Portland Transportation website they offer "Click here to express your support for the Portland Bicycle Plan for 2030!" which takes you to the "just click "yes!"" instructions.
They care about your opinion as long as your opinion is "yes."
Remeber, this is not just for your own good you fat lazy citizen who enjoys a heated and sheltered commute during the month of January, it's also to create equity with people who can't afford cars.
12 comments:
Leave it to Miglavs to invoke the language of Stalinist Russia and events leading to mass murder when talking about a bicycling plan for a city he doesn't even live in. I'm laughing at you, Miglavs, but I won't use the 3-letter acronym to indicate that I'm laughing out loud because I know you think it diminishes the, um, high quality of political commentary here in Miglavia.
In a single-party state, there is no need for dissent.
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let is snow, let it snow, let it snow! lmao at the idiots in the Metro area.
I wonder if the same thing is going on in Chicago right now?
Summary of the 2009 Bicycle Count:
• For the first time since 1995, the number of bicycle trips counted decreased in Portland.
• Bicycle traffic on Portland’s four bicycle-friendly bridges (Broadway, Steel, Burnside and Hawthorne bridges) and at 101 non-bridge locations showed a one-year decrease of 6 percent and 5 percent respectively. The total number of bicycle trips in Portland (combined bridge and non-bridge) decreased 5 percent compared with 2008.
Quite obviously, then, Portland needs a bike plan.
Do any of these dorks actually live here? I live in the West Hills, and there is no way on God's green earth that I'd ride a bicycle on Scholl's Ferry Road, Taylor's Ferry Road, Skyline, or in fact virtually anywhere in Southwest.
All the folks who yak about the glories of bike-riding live in flat areas of southeast and northeast, ride to their barista jobs in the Pearl, and cluck at others who aren't as morally righteous as they view themselves.
MEMO TO PORTLAND: Max Redline doesn't ride a bike himself, so since it's all about Max's needs, his lack of participation negates the need for a bike plan. Thousands of Portlanders ride bikes all the time, but Max has made his decision, so they're out of luck.
The only one I see clucking with moral righteousness is you. I won't dispute that some folks on a bike have a 'tude about it, but it's nothing compared with the bitching and moaning I see on this blog about people who ride bikes, or use MAX or some other transportation other than cars. It's all about you guys, isn't it? You've sequestered yourselves away in your comfy cars, celebrating your wonderful "independence" and individualism, and so everybody else who doesn't make the same choice as you (or can't afford to, and believe me, that's the case for some people) can just go to hell, right? That's the attitude I get from you, and it stinks, so from me to you, here's my 'tude: Fuck off, and enjoy that car when you're paying $12 a gallon for gas in a few years.
Max's argument is like calling for laying off cops when the crime rate drops; I seriously doubt any self-styled "tough on crime" conservative would ever make that argument ... this contempt toward bicycling (other than walking, the ultimate form of self-reliance and independence when it comes to transportation) by some conservatives is genuinely bizarre. I don't understand it.
Oh, very touchy anonymice here.
MEMO TO PORTLAND: Max Redline doesn't ride a bike himself, so since it's all about Max's needs, his lack of participation negates the need for a bike plan. Thousands of Portlanders ride bikes all the time, but Max has made his decision, so they're out of luck.
I know it's a stretch, but try reading for comprehension sometime.
Do any of these dorks actually live here? I live in the West Hills, and there is no way on God's green earth that I'd ride a bicycle on Scholl's Ferry Road, Taylor's Ferry Road, Skyline, or in fact virtually anywhere in Southwest.
You ever tried to ride on any of the roads I mentioned? Didn't think so.
Until you've ridden the areas, stuff it. You don't know enough to open your yap. And yes, I have a...wait for it...
mountain bike.
I just won't ride it on southwest Portland roads.
All the folks who yak about the glories of bike-riding live in flat areas of southeast and northeast, ride to their barista jobs in the Pearl, and cluck at others who aren't as morally righteous as they view themselves.
I stand by that statement; as every Portland Bike Plan thus far to come down the pike focuses on east-side flatlands. You got your $3 million bridge across McLoughlin, and a fancy new one in the works for light rail and bikes.
Doesn't matter; bike ridership in Portland has still declined. Obviously, the solution is to throw yet more money at yet more "plans" so that flatlanders might, maybe, pedal a bit more.
You've sequestered yourselves away in your comfy cars, celebrating your wonderful "independence" and individualism, and so everybody else who doesn't make the same choice as you (or can't afford to, and believe me, that's the case for some people) can just go to hell, right?
Oddly, I don't recall saying that, anonymouse. I believe those words are entirely products of your very fevered, very liberal, imagination.
I do live and work in Southwest Portland, and I do drive. That's because taking public transportation to and from work would eat over four hours of each day, as opposed to the fifteen minutes it takes to drive. I believe that it is more "environmentally-friendly" to make the drive. As noted previously, I will not make the trip by bike. It simply isn't safe, and no Portland "Bike Plan" issued to date, at great cost to taxpayers, has ever addressed that issue.
And yes, I am not a barista. This means that I can afford to live in an actual house, and to drive a car. Absent governmental intervention, $12 per gallon gas will not occur - and so, yes, for reasons of safety and comfort (and the hours saved in my life so that I can actually enjoy them), I will continue to drive.
I'd like the taxes that I pay to provide vehicle pavement to do exactly that, rather than be diverted to "Bicycle Plans" and multimillion dollar bridges for bicycles.
As for "going to hell"...
We've had over 20 years of Democrat rule in this state.
I believe we've arrived.
That was funny Max.
I like the final two sentences. You brought a laugh to me first thing in the morning. I don't think we are quite there yet. Now, California has arrived in hell. I'm sure we are next. We can all thank the DemocRATS and RINO's.
Oregon Guy: I have to disagree with you on your statement of 10:25. I believe it should read, "In a single party state there is no dissent allowed or tolerated."
This can be witnessed by the Oregon Senate under Peter Courtney and the SecState Kate Brown. (Remember the Jessica's Law fiasco a couple of years ago when Brown would not allow it to be heard in the Legislature?) And further in the actions of the U.S. House of Representatives under Nancy "Pinocchio" Pelosi and the U.S. Senate under Dirty Harry Reid.
You fools don't have the slightest clue what it's like to live in "hell," or what tryanical government, or a "single-party" state is. I and my family lived in East Germany until the wall came down, so we have a pretty good idea of what "hell" is like, where freedoms truly are meaningless and government truly is opppressive. This (Oregon/ the U.S.) is paradise compared to some of those Eastern European countries. You need to study history so you have of context, because all this complaining really does make you look ridiculous. You have no idea how lucky you are, none. I am proud to live in America.
K.R.
What a great resource!
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