{"id":4333,"date":"2009-11-19T16:53:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T16:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecoworldly.com\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2009-11-19T16:53:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T16:53:01","slug":"3-portland-oregon-great-bicycle-city-photo-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/3-portland-oregon-great-bicycle-city-photo-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"#3 Portland, Oregon (USA): Great Bicycle City Photo Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With bike weddings, bike parades, hundreds of naked bicyclists, bike fashion shows, popular & interesting cargo bikes, and travelling bike pubs, Portland is #3 on this great bicycle city photo tours list.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Portland has great bicycle facilities (colored bike lanes, bike boxes at intersections, great bike signs, off-road bicycle paths, etc.), a large number of people using the bicycle for transportation, and a bike culture that brings the fun<\/em> of bicycling to another level.<\/p>\n

As a result of these factors and more, Portland was the first large city in the US to achieve the Platinum level Bike Friendly award from the League of American Bicyclists (LAB) — the Platinum level being the highest level possible (above Gold, Silver and Bronze). It is truly a world-class bicycle city now, and the amazing photos in this photo tour help to show that.<\/p>\n

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Explaining why Portland achieved the Platinum level in 2008, the LAB<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

Bicycle provisions and promotion is integrated into almost every action taken by Portland \u2013 beginning in the Mayor’s Office, down to actions taken by maintenance crews on the streets. Portland has a seamless and varied bicycle network that connects all parts of the city and has proven success. Portland dramatically increased its bicycle use and has a strong bicycle culture where all types of cyclists can find limitless opportunities to enjoy riding a bicycle.<\/p>\n

Annually there are an estimated 2,100 rides, races or other events held to encourage cyclists \u2013 an average of six per day \u2013 and they draw more than 40,000 participants. Portland\u2019s increased ridership comes with an increased focus on safety though a Share the Road ticket diversion program, newly installed side underrun guards on all city trucks and an \u2018Eye to Eye\u2019 campaign. The Bicycle Transportation Alliance offers one of the nation’s leading Safe Routes to School programs. The Community Cycling Center also offers an exciting Create a Commuter program that donates low income adults with a fully outfitted commuter bike, requisite commuting gear and bike safety training.<\/p>\n

In Portland 60 percent of downtown police officers are on bike. Portland recently constructed a bicycle facility along a segment of roadway through a transit center that provides a direct connection between two popular bikeways in Central City and improved the safety of intersections across town by implementing bicycle boxes. With support of local merchants and to meet a surging demand, Portland has provided six on-street bicycle parking sites \u2014 offering parking for 12 bikes for every car parking spot removed. Not content to stop there, Portland has also engaged in a high-level update of its bicycle master plan, expanding the city\u2019s infrastructure and programs like improving off-road riding access. Portland is looking to rework their policies, designs and bikeway networks to set the stage for transforming itself into a true world-class bicycling city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Portland has a lot going on! The best aspect of the city, in my opinion, is its great bicycle culture. Get a glimpse of this in the photos to come.<\/p>\n

If you missed the previous bicycle photo tours, they were:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

#4 Copenhagen (Denmark)<\/strong><\/a>
\n#5 Paris (France)<\/strong><\/a>
\n#6 Groningen (the Netherlands)<\/strong><\/a>
\n#7 Berlin (Germany)<\/strong><\/a>
\n#8 Barcelona (Spain)<\/strong><\/a>
\n#9 Bogota (Columbia)<\/strong><\/a>
\n#10 Basel (Switzerland)<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Groceries on Bike in Winter<\/h3>\n

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Bike Jousting<\/h3>\n

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Super Bikers<\/h3>\n

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“Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own.” ~Louis J. Helle, Jr.<\/a>, Spring in Washington<\/em><\/h3>\n

Unicycles, Too<\/h3>\n

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One Workplace’s Mode Share Pie, on the Sidewalk<\/h3>\n

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Bike Police<\/h3>\n

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Beautiful Bike Racks<\/h3>\n

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Zoobomb Gold Bike Pylon<\/h3>\n

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Image Credit 1: jesse.millan via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 2: slippingthebladeinthemarmalade via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 3: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 4: adamscarroll via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 5: Ben Amstutz via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 6: jesse.millan vi flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 7: vanw via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 8: K_Gradinger via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 9: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 10: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 11: neighborhood notes pdx via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/p>\n

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Bike Wedding Parades<\/h3>\n

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Bike Fairy Pedicabs<\/h3>\n

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“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man’s convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man’s brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.” ~Elizabeth West<\/a>, Hovel in the Hills<\/em><\/h3>\n

Bike Halftime Shows<\/h3>\n

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Bands on Bikes<\/h3>\n

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Bike Parades<\/h3>\n

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Bike Street Clowns<\/h3>\n

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“After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.” ~H.G. Wells<\/a>, The Wheels of Chance<\/em><\/h3>\n

Image Credit 1: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 2: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 3: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 4: Portland Pedalworks via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 5: actionhero via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 6: Ben Amstutz via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 7: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 8: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/p>\n

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Green Bike Lanes with Bike Boxes, Dutch Style<\/h3>\n

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Blue Bike Lanes at Major Intersections, Copenhagen Style<\/h3>\n

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Bike Lane Stencil — Bike & Golf<\/h3>\n

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Bike Lane Stencil — Juggling on a Bike<\/h3>\n

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Artistic Bike Racks<\/h3>\n

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Good Signage for Bicyclists<\/h3>\n

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Great Bicycle & Pedestrian Lanes on a Bridge<\/h3>\n

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On Hawthorne Bridge. The photographer writes<\/a>: “This clear signage allows a wide sidewalk on a bridge to be safely shared between bikes and pedestrian traffic.”<\/p>\n

Bikes on Transit<\/h3>\n

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From the photographer<\/a>: “MAX trains essentially have have three kinds of carriages: two kinds of low-floor carriages and one kind of high-floor carriage.<\/p>\n

Each MAX train consists of just two carriages (they are short because Portland city blocks are so short), and one carriage is guaranteed to be a low-floor carriage (only the low floor carriage are suitable for folks with disabilities). But… only the low floor carriages have hooks (you can stand on the high-floor ones). Each low floor carriages has 4 hooks, so a train has 4 or 8 good places to hang a bike and relax.”<\/p>\n

Image Credit 1: poetas via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 2: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 3: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 4: Shannon Henry via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 5: Brewcaster via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 6: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 7: hradcanska via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 8: Mark Stosberg via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 9: brianellin via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 10: mokolabs via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 11: Mark Stosberg via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 12: Major Clanger via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/p>\n

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Bike Fashion Shows<\/h3>\n

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Image Credit 1: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 2: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 3: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 4: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 5: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 6: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 7: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 8: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 9: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 10: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 11: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 12: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/p>\n

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Bike Tattoos<\/h3>\n

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Bike Art<\/h3>\n

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Bike Fish or Fish Bike (not sure)<\/h3>\n

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“When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day’s sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay’s call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else’s heart.” ~Diane Ackerman<\/a><\/h3>\n

Bike Art?<\/h3>\n

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Image Credit 1: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 2: vj_pdx via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 3: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 4: Philosophographlux via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 5: Ben Amstutz via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 6: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/p>\n

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Fun Family Bicycling<\/h3>\n

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“A bicycle does get you there and more…. And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun.” ~Bill Emerson<\/a>, “On Bicycling,” Saturday Evening Post<\/em>, 29 July 1967<\/h3>\n

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Image Credit 1: EthanPDX via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 2: drwhimsy via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 3: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 4: cafemama via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 5: qousqous via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 6: Philosophographlux via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 7: Mark Stosberg via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/p>\n

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Naked Bicycling Events<\/h3>\n

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Image Credit 1: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 2: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 3: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/p>\n

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Donuts on Bikes<\/h3>\n

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Beer by Bike<\/h3>\n

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Pizza Delivery<\/h3>\n

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Bike-Thru Window at Black Sheep Bakery, no Cars<\/h3>\n

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Image Credit 1: Anomalily via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 2: Elly Blue via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 3: Elly Blue via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 4: chrispyworld via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 5: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/p>\n

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Bike on Bike<\/h3>\n

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Got a Package to Pick Up? Get It on Your Bike<\/h3>\n

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Bike Delivery<\/h3>\n

From the photographer<\/a>: “B-Line PDX is a new local business that is looking to change how Portland businesses deliver goods across town. They got two huge cargo bikes and the clients are already rolling in.”<\/p>\n

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Cool Cargo Bike<\/h3>\n

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Dutch-Style Cargo Bike<\/h3>\n

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More Cargo Bikes<\/h3>\n

Both of these for sale at a downtown bicycle shop, Portland Tricycles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Cargo Bike in Snow<\/h3>\n

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Cleaning Service by Bike<\/h3>\n

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Recycling on Bike<\/h3>\n

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Image Credit 1: gregraisman via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 2: gregraisman via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 3: timmycorkery via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 4: gabriel amadeus via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 5: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 6: NathanBackous via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 7: Mark Stosberg via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 8: Portland Pedalworks via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 9: Portland Pedalworks via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 10: npGREENWAY via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 11: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 12: Philosophographlux via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/p>\n

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Off-Road Biking Safer for Bikes than Cars<\/h3>\n

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“Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.” ~Jacquie Phelan<\/a><\/h3>\n

If you liked this photo tour, you are sure to like the previous ones as well:<\/p>\n

#4 Copenhagen (Denmark)<\/strong><\/a>
\n#5 Paris (France)<\/strong><\/a>
\n#6 Groningen (the Netherlands)<\/strong><\/a>
\n#7 Berlin (Germany)<\/strong><\/a>
\n#8 Barcelona (Spain)<\/strong><\/a>
\n#9 Bogota (Columbia)<\/strong><\/a>
\n#10 Basel (Switzerland)<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And be sure not to miss the top two photo tours! Keep your eye on EcoWorldly<\/strong><\/a> or subscribe to its feed or email list<\/a> to make sure you don’t miss them or other upcoming posts. Have something extra to add? Comment below!<\/p>\n

Image Credit: BikePortland.org via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With bike weddings, bike parades, hundreds of naked bicyclists, bike fashion shows, popular & interesting cargo bikes, and travelling bike pubs, Portland is #3 on this great bicycle city photo tours list. [social_buttons] Portland has great bicycle facilities (colored bike lanes, bike boxes at intersections, great bike signs, off-road bicycle paths, etc.), a large number …<\/p>\n

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