I am attempting to document Triangle Park as best I can before it is all transformed into a University River Campus. The graffiti and tired, worn out buildings have a strange sort of beauty to them that I will miss.
For those of you who don't know, this property was recently purchased by the University of Portland. npGREENWAY is excited for the opportunity that this provides for the University and for the Willamette Greenway Trail. We are looking forward to a new 12' wide hard surface transportation trail through this area in the future.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
inauguration from space | people? or ants?
One of our npGREENWAY members was at President Obama's Inauguration yesterday. I tried to pick her out in this photo, but I think I'm still going to need a little higher resolution!
Were you there? I met a family on the MAX today who had just returned from D.C. The woman said she had been there for Clinton's second inauguration and this was nothing like that one. I was not there, but I imagine this was unlike any inaugurations we've had for a very long time.
Were you there? I met a family on the MAX today who had just returned from D.C. The woman said she had been there for Clinton's second inauguration and this was nothing like that one. I was not there, but I imagine this was unlike any inaugurations we've had for a very long time.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
This Bridge Needs to be BUILT!!!
Concept of Waud Bluff Bridge Section from The Swan Island Trails Action Plan
Originally uploaded by npGREENWAY
(See: this BikePortland Article )
However, the Waud Bluff Trail bridge has been languishing in the funded but not built category for nearly five years now. We need to get this built!
Click on this image for adjacent images on the flickr page that give a description of the project from the Swan Island Trails Action plan, January, 2004.
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Where did Matt ride in 2008?
Bike enthusiast and Portlander, Matt Picio recently posted a map that traces all of his biking around Portland in 2008. It is quite the amazing map and really shows how a bike can be used for transportation in this town.
In the future, we hope more of his "red lines" will be along the North Willamette waterfront on the trail alignment envisioned by npGREENWAY.
Matt had this to say about his endeavors on a local e-mail list serve for SHIFT to bikes:
In the future, we hope more of his "red lines" will be along the North Willamette waterfront on the trail alignment envisioned by npGREENWAY.
Matt had this to say about his endeavors on a local e-mail list serve for SHIFT to bikes:
Most of you know I'm rather... obsessive about recording my mileage when I ride - and I put together a map. My GPS tracks where I've been, and my map software automatically imports those tracks and displays them for me.
I rode over 6,300 miles this year, compared to 5,200 last year and 3,400 the year before that. I spent 613 hours actually seated on my bike this past year - that's equivalent to spending 38 days (assuming 8 hours sleep each day) doing nothing but riding.
My goal for 2009 is 10,000 miles (like the Air Force says, "Aim High") -
we'll see how I do.
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