Tag: portland

• 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

• The Heat Death of BRT

  

  Or how we’re learning the wrong lessons from the FX2

  cityhikes

  February 5, 2025

  car culture, neighborhood, portland, transit, trimet, urban planning

  brt, bus, bus rapid transit, fta, fx, land use, lugano, portland, public-transportation, san francisco, switzerland, transit, transportation, travel, trimet, urban planning, urbanism, van ness

• Where Have All The Buses Gone?

  

  Oregon is losing two key bus routes – does anyone even care?

  cityhikes

  January 4, 2025

  intercity bus, odot, train, transit, urban planning

  boise, bus, car culture, flixbus, grants pass, greyhound, intercity bus, la grande, medford, ontario, oregon, portland, trains, transit, transportation, travel

• On the Need For Social Change

  

  It’s not enough to fund transit, we also need to change society

  cityhikes

  August 28, 2024

  car culture, highway, interurban, odot, place, portland, society, train, transit, trimet, urban planning

  car culture, land use, new york city, oregon, portland, public transit, transit, tube map, urbanism

• I-84 Graffiti Clean Up: Why?

  

  Can we please update the GTFS at least TriMet?

  cityhikes

  July 13, 2024

  car culture, portland, transit, trimet, urban planning, urban renewal

  car culture, cleanliness, oregon, portland, railroad, transit, transportation, travel, trimet, urbanism

• Dreaming of a New SW Corridor

  

  What if we combined it with a high speed rail initiative?

  cityhikes

  July 9, 2024

  high speed rail, interurban, odot, place, portland, train, transit, trimet, urban planning

  high speed rail, land use, light rail, max, oregon, portland, railroad, sw corridor, trains, transit, transportation, travel, urbanism

• Please Stop Making Pedestrians Beg

  

  Ranting about RRFBs and “Crosswalk Closed” signs

  cityhikes

  June 19, 2024

  pedestrian access, portland, urban planning, walk

  car culture, mutcd, news, oregon, pedestrian, pedestrian dignity, pedestrian-safety, portland, rrfb, safety, traffic, traffic-safety, urbanism, walkability, walking

• The Death and Life of Great American Interurbans

  

  How Cleveland, Ohio and Portland, Oregon represent the past and the future of mass transit in the US

  cityhikes

  June 17, 2024

  interurban, odot, place, portland, train, transit, trimet, urban planning

  city, cleveland, interurban, land use, portland, railroad, transit, transportation, travel, urbanism

• Thoughts On Groceries, Again

  

  Why doesn’t anyone think about walking to the grocery store?

  cityhikes

  June 5, 2024

  grocery stores, pedestrian access, portland, society

  grocery stores, land use, oregon, portland, transit, urbanism, walking

• 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