Category: car culture

• West Down Pico

  

  A long walk to the ocean is always a good idea

  cityhikes

  December 14, 2023

  car culture, stroad, transit, urban planning, walk

  california, car culture, expo line, land use, los angeles, pico, pico boulevard, santa monica, transit, travel, urbanism, walking

• Winter Break Soon

  

  The term is ending, time to get back on the city hikes train

  cityhikes

  November 30, 2023

  car culture, place, train, transit, urban planning, walk

  charles mingus, chicago, coast starlight, flagstaff, land use, los angeles, pacific electric, railroad, santa fe, southern pacific, southwest chief, transit, urbanism

• 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

• Reflections On Car Free May

  

  What it’s like to completely reject the automobile for a month

  cityhikes

  June 3, 2023

  car culture, outdoors culture, pedestrian access, place, train, transit, urban planning, walk

  car culture, car free, car free living, hiking, pedestrian, portland, san francisco, transit, urban planning, urban walk, urbanism, walking

• Pining For the Bus on SE 13th

  

  The end of an era draws near

  cityhikes

  May 15, 2023

  car culture, interurban, neighborhood, pedestrian access, train, transit, trimet, urban planning, walk

  bus service, car culture, land use, oregon, portland, rose city, sellwood, streetcar, transit, trolleybus, urbanism

• Sauntering In Seattle

  

  Thoughts on being a pedestrian in the Emerald City

  cityhikes

  March 30, 2023

  car culture, stroad, transit, urban planning, walk

  car culture, city, city exploration, Seattle, transit, urban walk, urbanism, walking, washington

• In Praise Of Winter Walks

  

  The ice storm is over, let’s talk about it a bit

  cityhikes

  February 28, 2023

  car culture, urban planning, walk

  land use, portland, portland oregon, snow, snow day, urbanism, walk, walking, walks, winter

• 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

• High Capacity Transit In Portland

  

  What does that even mean?

  cityhikes

  February 13, 2023

  car culture, train, transit, trimet, urban planning

  brt, brt creep, bus rapid transit, car culture, high capacity transit, land use, metro, oregon, portland, transit, urban planning, urbanism

• Car Dependency and Transit in Portland

  

  A short discussion on my thoughts on my local transit agency

  cityhikes

  October 25, 2022

  car culture, transit, trimet, urban planning

  car culture, land use, portland, transit, trimet, urbanism