Portland Plans to Spend $600 million on Master Bike Plan
Portland, Oregon is leading the nation with a 2030 master bike plan that calls to spend up to $600 MILLION! Talk about a lot of money for bicycles! The more people that get out of their cars, the more livability will improve and hopefully improved air quality.
The city of Portland has already committed to spending $20 million this year for bike boulevards. Portland is taking some cool steps toward making travel via bike more safe and easy. The newly implemented techniques in the video below show how the city is taking steps to improve the experience for cyclists and drivers. The greenest city in America has also installed several “swales” alongside many city streets to filter street water run off, which also double as barriers between pedestrians and auto traffic. Implementations like these are only a few of the strategies Portland has taken to make alternative travel fun and safe for even those who are new to biking in the city. Along with the title of Greenest City in America Portland has claimed the #1 spot for most bicycle friendly city in the nation.
The 2030 Master Bike Plan
The 2030 master bike plan aims to make bicycling a critical component of the city’s overall transportation system and a significant element of its sustainable green economy. More than an update of the 1996 plan, it proposes fundamental changes to city policy, to bikeway design, to the density of our bikeway network and to an array of supporting efforts and programs. The Portland Bicycle Plan for 2030 also identifies the many benefits that will accrue to Portland as a result of its implementation. That Portland functions well for bikes is not a matter of chance.
The Portland Bicycle Plan for 2030 follows in the tradition of Portlanders working to make the city better, and using sound planning to do so. The efforts are organized around a vision – that a Portland with the bicycle as a pillar of its transportation is truly a beautiful city. Bicycling has already done much to enhance the beauty of Portland, its people and its economy. It has offered a tremendous return on the modest investments we have made in building cycling infrastructure and promoting bicycle use.
Portland will be cleaner and healthier. It will attract more tourists and businesses, and will keep more of our money circulating through our local economy. Portland will have freedom of movement and freedom from trafic congestion. People will be able to meet their daily transportation needs more efficiently. Portland will remain a national model of how to make modern North American cities work.
On the Right Track from Mayor Sam Adams on Vimeo.
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