Quotes

Some Quotes on Bicycle Boulevards in Portland

“Those areas of the city with the highest cycling activity tend to have more bicycle boulevard streets.”
-City of Portland Office of Transportation.

http://www.portlandonline.com/transportation/index.cfm?c=50736&a=161902

“Areas with more “bicycle boulevards” enjoy greater ridership as well as better riding conditions.”
-City of Portland Office of Transportation.

“A lot of people are not comfortable on busy streets, and in a lot of cases not even busy streets with bike lanes. If the local streets are available but you don’t know where they go, you just don’t do it.”
- Keith Liden, Portland Community Organizer, The Portland Tribune, Jul 20, 2007

“The decision to prioritize the development of bicycle boulevards was driven by a desire to improve safety and to provide cost-effective facilities that work for the vast majority of Portlanders.”
-Portland Office of Transportation website

“Our story is build it and they will come. We’ve built it and we now are
approaching 6-8% mode split.”
Roger Geller, November 14, 2008

http://bikefriendlyoc.wordpress.com

Bike boulevards will go a long way toward attracting the 300,000 or so people (about 60 percent of the city’s population) who are dubbed “interested but concerned” about riding on the city streets.
-Portland Office of Transportation, The Portland Tribune, Jul 20, 2007

Roger Geller is targeting bike boulevards as the best means of making cycling accessible to the most entry-level riders.
-Bike Lessons From Portland: Take Cycling Seriously.
Julia Levitt, World Changing Seattle, October 23, 2008

“There has been a linear rise in bike use, but in the last four years it’s been exponential.”
-Roger Geller, Portland, Portland Style: Touring by Bicycle.
The New York Times, April 3, 2009