StreetFilms-Portland: HighTech Bike Signal

Portland's Office of Transportation (PDOT) goes the extra mile to accommodate cyclists. Rex Burkholder, the Metro Counsellor and founder of the the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA), explains how to operate this bike signal placed at a potentially hazardous intersection for cyclists. The light gives riders a dedicated signal to maximize safety and the convenience of having to wait thru only one signal pattern.

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News & Politics

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• bike
• red
• light
• streetsblog
• portland
• signal
• bicycle
• greenway
• traffic
• cars
• innovative
• transportation

[EmWilly]

Portland LOVES its cyclists. :)

[kbraband]

?? Every cyclist who is pictured in the video is wearing a helmet. You're not talking about the narrator, are you? That would be excessive, don't you think?

[Yetibiker11]

So Portland is the friendliest city in the USA for cyclists? Portland? Davis is far more friendly than Portland. Why are the cycling painted strips "white"? They should be another color like "reflective orange " something the motorists can see and with a gritty surface for inclement weather.....hello you designers need to spend some time in Europe like a decade or too.................=) USA is so far behind

[ThinkStage]

Very cool

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[Death2theNWO777]

kool

[IanMastenbrook94]

I use this quite a bit and it's quite nice, but Portland has lost it's rep of being bike friendly. I've had some close calls with drivers pushing us off the road and swear at us.

[LoudProudNPunk1]

...another reason I am moving there

[GuiFigueiredoA]

That is amazing. Portland seems to have good alternative ways of transportation, like bike signals and the street car. That is really important to encourage people to leave their cars at home (at least once in a while).

[EssentialRationality]

Damn I love my city and my state. Innovation is the key to survival. Every city should build its infrastructure to facilitate bike/public transportation travel.

[ShantanCoo1]

go portland. lol

[littlephoenix1115]

yay portland <3

[BBdaWolfy]

Rex Burkholder lost his election bid in my opinion because he pandered to the urbanite vote and ignored the majority of metro voters. This may be more evidence that most Oregonians do not care for portland urbanites.