Tag: Portland
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How to Choose the Right Daycare for a Biking Lifestyle
One key part to maintaining a biking lifestyle is being intentional in planning your daily routine. You need to identify businesses that you visit frequently and plan to stick with the same place for a while. This could include any type of business, such as grocery, gym, parks, hairdresser/barber, or childcare/ daycare. If you live…
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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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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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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,…