Vicious Cycle Portland is not so bike-friendly—But it could be. Here’s how.
| November 1, 2007 |  View for printing |
Repeat something often enough and people will assume it’s true.
Portland is bike-friendly.
Portland is bike-friendly.
Portland is bike-friendly.
Year after year, Bicycling Magazine ranks Portland the best cycling city in the country. The League of American Bicyclists gives us a gold rating, and we may soon become the first big city to join Davis, Calif., in the coveted platinum category.
Virgin Vacations recently put Portland among the world’s “bike-friendly paradises.” Last year, the Austin American-Statesman noted, with some jealousy, that Portland “lives the dream of car-bicycle equality.”
Really? Tell that to Brett Jarolimek, the 31-year-old expert cyclist who died after colliding with a garbage truck on North Interstate Avenue on Oct. 22, or to Tracey Sparling, the 19-year-old student who was crushed by a cement truck at West Burnside Street less than two weeks earlier.
BY COREY PEIN
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