That being said, I will be biking up some wicked 20 percent grades to go over beacon hill to get home today instead of dealing with these sharrows.
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Phew. This is good news!
I confirmed with a source living in Renton: King County is looking into using 7th Street instead of BNSF railway for the Renton segment of the Lake to Sound Trail. The sharrows are a temporary measure while plans for a cycletrack get considered.
7th Street east of Shattuck recently got a 2-way PBL
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Yeah, I’ve listened to the public comments for the bridge.
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I realize that it’s zoned industrial—and I’m a big proponent of rethinking industrial zoning in prime urban areas where the land effectively is used as empty parking lots because its value is held artificially low by industrial zoning.
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Seems to be a real bummer—who wouldn’t want to live along a waterway that has relatively easy bike and transit access to both Portland and Vancouver? But instead, we’re building housing further out, leaving this undeveloped hole which will be adjacent to an even bigger highway project.
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..see why freight interests don’t want it. And it looks like support for the highway expansion from the bird people has been bought of with this promise of keeping the land undeveloped and not used for housing.
Oregon considers selling 65 acres of Hayden Island for ODOT conservation
State officials took the first step Tuesday to sell 65 acres of shoreline on the southwestern side of Hayden Island to the Oregon Department of Transportation.
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Biking back and forth from Vancouver the last two days, I can’t help but wonder why Hayden Island, which is within the urban growth boundary of Portland, doesn’t have more housing construction. More housing would result in more opposition to highway expansion, so I can…
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Now on the train back from an awesome Bus Riders Unite #WeekWithoutDriving event in Portland where we heard testimonies from many transit riders who are fighting to preserve TriMet service. Stay tuned for reporting from @bikeportland.org.
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Now I’m jonesing for a private viewing, I wanted to be a muralist in college— actually to be honest, I’ve always wanted to be a muralist, but never figured out how to have it pay the bills
Moya's Murals | Moya RHS
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I’d totally would have loved to grab a beer in this tap room while waiting for the train. www.historylink.org/File/9946
