Category: bike

• 80s Greenway Review

  

  Spoiler: it’s not great, and it’s even worse in context

  cityhikes

  July 4, 2025

  bike, highway, pedestrian access, portland, stroad, transit, urban planning

  bike, biking, brt, greenway, portland, transit, transportation, urban planning, urbanism, walking

• Following The Thread of the O&C

  

  Does a turn of the 20th century scandal railroad scandal still matter?

  cityhikes

  March 27, 2025

  bike, outdoors culture, place, train, urban planning

  california, environment, family-history, forest, genealogy, history, land use, land use policy, oregon, politics, portland, railroad, transit, transportation, urbanism

• Portland’s Greenway Problem

  

  Or how the 2030 Bike Plan created our “greenway only” bike network

  cityhikes

  February 14, 2025

  bike, car culture, place, portland, urban planning

  access, bicycle, bike, bike lane, biking, city planning, commute, cycling, greenway, history, news, plan, portland, travel, urban planning

• Sunday Parkways, Again

  

  Revisiting a beloved but underfunded open streets program to see if there’s more to be done

  cityhikes

  March 31, 2024

  bike, pedestrian access, place, portland, urban planning, walk

  bike-rides, ciclovia, cycling, infrastructure, open streets, pedestrian, portland, portland sunday parkways, streets, transportation, transportation policy, travel, urbanism, walking

• Staring Into The Void Of Zoning In Madison

  

  Does the West Area Plan go too far? Or not far enough?

  cityhikes

  March 27, 2024

  bike, neighborhood, pedestrian access, place, swimming, transit, urban planning, wisconsin

  affordable-housing, cities, city, city life, density, housing, land use, madison, transit, urban planning, urbanism, walking, wisconsin

• A Tale Of Two Bike Rides

  

  Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the World Naked Bike Ride

  cityhikes

  August 24, 2023

  bike, bridge, car culture, highway, odot, pedestrian access, urban planning

  car culture, car dependency, cycling, cycling activism, human access, naked bike ride, portland, systematic change, urbanism, vulnerability, wnbr

• A Mild Critique of Portland Sunday Parkways

  

  Car free streets are good, and they need to be a year-round occurance

  cityhikes

  February 20, 2023

  bike, car culture, pedestrian access, place, stroad, urban planning, walk

  biking, car culture, car free, land use, oregon, pbot, portland, urbanism, walking