A fall haiku for Portland:)
Leaves in the bike lane… Swift tires crunch through them, loud I’m glad they’re not wet
Year: 2013
New bike infrastructure!
Sometimes, a bike route I take a lot falls out of practice for me. Generally, it’s because I stop doing something that I have been doing, like when I graduated from school and stopped going to SW Portland as much, or when I stopped teaching Bike Club and thus stopped …
Those miles add up…
Back when I was a teacher commuting every day, my standard complement of biking was about 100 miles a week–a little over 19 miles every day of work, plus extra miles now and then for errands, side trips, the long way home. Really, I usually ended up over 100, but …
On multi-use trails, infrastructure makes all the difference
There are some excellent multi-use trails in and around Portland. The Springwater Corridor comes to mind, for example: over 20 miles of awesome, paved, off-street path that will take you all the way from Portland to Boring. The Springwater’s kind of a pathy institution, a sort of jogging-walking-biking superhighway on …