Daily biking in Portland
Hi, team! If you live in Portland (or maybe if you don’t) and care about livability, clean air, and not building bigger freeways, PLEASE consider submitting a comment to ODOT about their proposed I-5 Rose Quarter Expansion Project. By January 3rd. No More Freeways has an excellent website with lots …
I had an unexpected present on my way to work this morning: new bike infrastructure on my commute! There are many lovely parts to my commute up to the I-5 bridge and over the Columbia River, and there are some not as lovely parts. But today, one not-as-lovely part was …
The other day, I was biking east on the Springwater Corridor, which is one of my favorite bike paths in Portland and is 21 almost-totally-car-free miles long. It goes along the Willamette River, then up Johnson Creek, traveling through wetlands, open prairies, and between parks. It’s the way I used …
This is some of the weather I love most, the rain followed by bursts of sunshine that make the just-passed and the also-still-impending dark clouds even more dramatic. The thickening air that smells, everywhere, like flowers. The bird songs — not the bird chatter, but the actual songs, the musical …
