What’s higher than rolling to highschool with the kiddos on a low-stress neighborhood greenway emblazoned with sharrows, 20 mph velocity restrict indicators, velocity bumps, safer crossings, and hardly any cease indicators? Doing it on a route that has cool, new “Bike Bus” pavement markings and warning indicators.
Within the newest signal of how the rise of motorbike buses in Portland have influenced metropolis coverage, the Portland Bureau of Transportation debuted new signage and markings on a number of routes. It’s all a part of a $650,000 plan (funded partially by a Metro grant) to make bike buses even higher, and it’s occurring simply as 1000’s of fogeys, trip leaders, and college students throughout town head again to highschool on two wheels.
The pilot venture will goal to teach communities about bike bus routes round 9 colleges: Alameda Elementary Faculty, Abernethy Elementary Faculty, Creston Elementary Faculty, Glencoe Elementary Faculty, James John Elementary Faculty, Maplewood Elementary Faculty, Vernon Okay-8 Faculty, Vestal Elementary Faculty and Woodstock Elementary Faculty. Along with the pavement markings and brilliant yellow “Bike Bus” indicators (see beneath), PBOT will even set up garden indicators in residential yards alongside routes, assist college workers with constructive messaging, and consider the venture by counting visitors and conducting college surveys.
This is only one of some ways PBOT is working to make the varsity journey by bike higher than ever. Final 12 months they accomplished 55 initiatives close to colleges (together with new crosswalks, sidewalks, paths, reducing velocity limits, and so forth) they usually’ve obtained extra deliberate this 12 months.
As Portland heads again into the varsity season, police issued a press release yesterday saying they might have, “a visual presence in and round college zones,” the primary few weeks of the 12 months to ensure of us drive 20 mph or beneath. Even Mayor Keith Wilson has weighed in on the significance of being protected on the street as children head again to class. “As is the Portland manner, 1000’s shall be strolling, biking and rolling to get there, similar to I did with my children,” Wilson mentioned in a press release yesterday. “It’s as much as all of us to be careful for our college students and preserve them protected.”
PBOT and metropolis leaders plan to affix a motorbike bus in southwest Portland this Friday to assist preserve the momentum going.
