Last Mile Biking: A suburban biking experience
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A Quick Guide to Exploring Portland’s NE Tillamook Neighborhood Greenway
The greenway has older houses with a little more of urban feel. There are some trees lining the streets, but we didn’t see as many bikers as during a usual outing in the city. However, the proximity to NE Broadway means that it is a convenient way to get to many different businesses and restaurants…
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A Perspective of Biking Portland’s SE Clinton St. Neighborhood Greenway
To bike the SE Clinton neighborhood greenway, start at SE Clinton and SE 12th. If you are taking public transit from another part of town, the Max Orange line stop is conveniently located at this intersection. At SE 21st, you can decide to make a detour to Ladd’s Addition, a distinctly X-shaped street plan. SE…
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What you Should Know about Neighborhood Greenways
Neighborhood greenways are low-traffic, slow (typically 25mph or less) streets that prioritize walking and biking. Many times the greenways are on small neighborhood roads that are parallel to busier throughfares for automobiles. There are a couple key features of greenways in Portland, Oregon. You’ll see green wayfinding signs that highlight directions and distance to neighborhoods…
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How to Find Joy Biking in Portland’s Mount Tabor Neighborhood
Portland is known for its quirkiness, but it’s not just limited to clothing style, record stores, and street art. There are fun and funky moments of joy to be found around town in neighborhood front yards and parking strips. Miniature galleries, exchanges and other festive displays—many of which could be mistaken for a tiny free…
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Understand How to Make Biking an Everyday Habit
The start of a new year can be the perfect time to reflect and plan for the days ahead. Instead of making resolutions, it can be easier to read about how to be better. And for 2023, that dose of positive thinking came from “hello, habits” by Fumio Sasaki. It’s a minimalist’s guide to a…
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How to Stay Motivated Biking in the Winter
Winter comes quickly in Portland in October. The weather quickly becomes cool and rainy. The days get shorter, and with it, so does the motivation to bike. To be transparent, rainy weather isn’t too bad, but we don’t enjoy biking in the dark. It can be less safe and pleasant, but there is no way…
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Best Bike for Riding Around Town and How to Find It
If you are just starting out with biking, don’t waste your time on high-end bike websites or reviewing the “Top 10” retail article recommendations. In our non-gearhead opinion, spending $500+ on a shiny new bike with all the bells and whistles designed by marketers isn’t going to provide the motivation to take it outside and…
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Considerations of the Time Variable when Biking vs. Driving
It’s easy to jump to the conclusion that biking to daily tasks is too time consuming. To add to that, biking is slower speed than driving so it feels like travel is constrained for limited amount of time. We did a quick Travel Time app analysis to see which daily tasks (grocery, childcare/daycare, elementary school,…
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What is the 20-minute Neighborhood?
The 20-minute dinner. The 20-minute workout. Society is obsessed with getting things done in 20-minutes or less. It seems like an easy amount of time to squeeze in your busy day with time to spare. So what about the 20-minute neighborhood? It is a core concept described in Portland, Oregon’s 2009 Climate Action Plan where…
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Six Ways that Biking can Improve Your Daily Life
We don’t want to sound like the family doctor reminding you to go to the gym more, but we believe adding a dose of biking to your week can offer benefits that you won’t get sitting in a car. Consider this your prescription to give biking a try.
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Why Last Mile Biking?
“The Last Mile” is a term in logistics for the last stage of the delivery process where goods move from a transportation hub to the final destination. Although distances are short, it can be very inefficient and cost more than 50% of the total shipping costs. In the suburbs and less-dense city neighborhoods, we live…