To create a world-class regional bicycle community, it’s worthwhile to get everybody on the identical web page to push for tasks, plans, and the funding to make all of it occur. That’s tough to do in convention rooms and Zoom conferences. However put of us on bicycles on a good looking day and magic issues materialize. That’s the thought behind the Policymakers Trip, a convention in our space that technically started in 2005, however actually discovered its footing in 2006.
This yr’s version of the trip was a survey of east Multnomah County. We rode 20 miles from Degree Beer at NE 148th and Marine Drive, alongside the Sandy River to Troutdale, after which again through the Columbia Slough and a spate of sidewalks and bikeways again to our place to begin.
I’ll have a extra thorough recap and a video on Monday; however for now, take a look on the pictures to get a way of what we skilled. It was undoubtedly a blended bag: from terribly slim bike lanes and white-knuckle sections of Marine Drive, to blissful paths subsequent to pure areas. Highlights for me have been pedaling for the primary time on the (comparatively) new Cha’ok Cha’ok Path alongside the Columbia River — and being among the many first cyclists to roll on the not-yet-open new bike path and park alongside the Sandy River in Troutdale.
Listed here are the remainder of my pictures:
