Category Archives: Bicycling

Community Cycling Center Benefit December 9th

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From Umpqua on Alberta:

Hello community peoples,

I am sure that you may be familiar with the good work the Community Cycling Center performs throughout the year. I would imagine you also might be aware of their Holiday Bike Drive. For more information visit the following link: http://www.communitycyclingcenter.org/?page_id=24.

Umpqua Bank Alberta will be putting forward our first, annual Spirit of the Season Benefit on Thursday, December 9th from 6 to 8 PM. This year the event will benefit the Community Cycling Center. Treats will be provided by Petite Provence and spirits from Cork Wine Shop. Representatives from the Community Cycling Center will be in attendance to discuss how interested residents can get involved with the center and support the Holiday Bike Drive.

Please share this information with your area residents and come out for a good cause!

1745 NE Alberta Street

Thanks,

Robert
Robert W. Cross | store manager | alberta arts | umpqua bank | c: 503-706-8138 | t: 503-219-6161 l f: 503-287-3182
P.S. Umpqua Bank Alberta’s Build Your Block Challenge has a winner! Learn how to get involved on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/albertaumpqua.

Safeway Agrees to KNA’s Requests

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Diane Phillips, Real Estate Manager for Safeway has informed the King Neighborhood Association that the company intends to fulfill KNA’s requests that the King Safeway store add covered bicycle parking and make a financial contribution to Friends of Trees. KNA made its support for Safeway’s requested adjustment from city landscaping code contingent on the fulfillment of the requests. If Safeway were not granted the adjustment, seven parking spaces would have been given over to additional trees and plantings. By making the donation to Friends of Trees, more low-income homeowners will be able to plant trees, thereby meeting the intent of the requirement. Also, bicycle parking at the store seems to have been an afterthought with wire loops welded on the bollards in front. A new, actual bike rack for 20 bikes is planned under the canopy by the door.

KNA Supports Maintaining Safeway Parking Conditionally

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Safeway sent representatives to the September meeting of the KNA to present their plans for landscaping changes that will take place due to the upcoming interior and exterior remodel of the store. In order to preserve the existing number of spaces in the lot, Safeway applied for an adjustment from city code that required more planted area. Seven of the 99 spaces would have been lost to comply. KNA agreed to support the adjustment on the condition that a financial donation to a Friends of Trees fund was made to assist low income homeowners plant more trees. Also requested was an improvement in bike parking at the store to standard bike racks for at least 20 bikes, preferably covered. Currently bike users must lock up to the bollards in front of the store which tends to be akward and leaves little room for pedestrian traffic between the bike trailers, etc. A letter in support with the conditions will be sent to the Bureau of Development Services.

Click here for the proposed exterior changes.

Click here for the landscape plan.

Klickitat Greenway Project Public Meetings

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North – North East Klickitat Street NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY PROJECT

Portland is currently in the process of expanding the network of family-friendly bicycle streets. The segment of North and North East Klickitat Street between North Vancouver at North Cook Street and North East 67th Avenue at North East Klickitat Street is a low traffic street identified as a bicycle boulevard in the recently adopted Portland Bicycle Plan for 2030. It provides connections to routes around North and North East Portland, to three schools, one park, to key transit hubs, and to
commercial areas. Please join your neighbors in helping City staff identify the key improvements to increase safety for all modes and specifically improve bicycle and pedestrian access. The improvements will focus on reducing speed, reducing neighborhood cut-through traffic, and providing safe crossings at busy streets. The Bureau of Transportation is also partnering with the Bureau of Environmental Services and Friends of Trees in the Gray to Green initiative to expand neighborhood access to street trees. Information will be available at the public meeting. NOTE: Funding for the entire project will be provided by the Bureau of Transportation. The Bureau of Transportation has scheduled a public meeting to discuss the project with your neighbors. At the first meeting, Transportation staff will provide an overview of bicycle boulevards, review existing traffic conditions on North and North East Klickitat, and hear your feedback. City staff will return for a second meeting to present recommendations on specific improvements.

1ST MEETING: Thursday, April 8, 2010

2ND MEETING: Thursday, May 6, 2010

Place: Alameda Elementary (Cafeteria)
2732 NE Fremont Street
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Should you have any questions, please contact Kyle Chisek, Project Manager, at 503-823-7041.
For ADA Title II or Civil Rights Title VI accommodations, translation/interpretation services, complaints, or additional information, call 503-823-7041, or City TDD 503-823-6868.

Five Sunday Parkways Coming for 2010!

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Transportation Options is bringing you five – yes, five! – Sunday Parkways events this year. Wow! The free Sunday events will take place May through September in Northeast, North, Southeast and East Portland, with a fifth route still being worked out. For all the latest news and route information, check out the Sunday Parkways pages online or go to www.GettingAroundPortland.org.