West coast lifestyle app Validated and Portland bike share program BIKETOWN announce first-of-its-kind partnership that lets shops and restaurants validate bike share costs.
To kick off the partnership, BIKETOWN and Validated are launching #GetValidated when you fill your #BIKETOWNbasket: a co-marketing campaign to encourage people to do two things this season: shop local and explore freely.
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Go Lloyd is hiring! We're seeking a full-time Program Manager to join our team. Want to help make a real difference at the neighborhood level? Read the full job announcement here and apply by December 30, 2016.
With possible snow in the forecast for higher elevations, plan ahead. Dress for winter weather, learn your snow route, plan extra time and check trimet.org/alerts before you go.
The Lloyd Enhanced Services District (ESD) is working with Watson Creative, a promotions and branding firm, to develop a promotions plan for the neighborhood. Watson Creative has developed a short survey to learn what people who live, work, or shop in Lloyd think about this place.
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your responses will be anonymous and will be very helpful in developing this plan. If you are a business owner or manager, please consider sharing this link with your staff and colleagues.
Sara Maly works as a sales manager for the Courtyard by Marriott hotel and volunteers on Go Lloyd's Pedestrian Committee. She moved here from Wisconsin about a year and a half ago to pursue her first job after college. She grew up in a small town of 2,000 people, so it was a big move and a big step to live without a vehicle. Her favorite part of living car-free is not having to find parking in the city and the fact that she gets to zip past traffic.
“I decided to move without my car because I work downtown in the Lloyd District and wanted to live close as well as save money! A family friend who lived out here told my family and me about how excellent public transit is here and how easy commuting is.”
Sara commutes from the west side using MAX, and a one-way trip is about 10-15 minutes. When she first started using MAX, Sarah took advantage of online resources to learn about the system, and also talked with TriMet staff at their visitor center. Her favorite resource is the TriMet app, which she uses every day and finds incredibly user-friendly. She mostly uses MAX for her travels, but also walks and occasionally uses Portland Streetcar.
Sara’s employer subsidizes her transit use, so she pays only a little over $3 a week to get to work and beyond. Sarah plans to use the money saved from not owning a car to pay off her student loans.
In addition to public transit, Sara uses Car2Go quite a bit, especially when she gets a lot of groceries or needs to move heavy items. She also uses Uber and Lyft for other trips. She'd like to try commuting to work by bicycle to see if that would be a good option, and is also looking into the new carshare service ReachNow, which is similar to Car2Go.
“I enjoy riding the Red Line west because it’s often tourists, and I work in hospitality so I love recommending fun things to do or helping them with directions. One time another commuter complimented my headphones and we started to chat. I thought I was just making a friend and then a day later she called me to join a pyramid scheme!”
Sara's advice for anyone starting to live a car-light or car-free life is to use the TriMet app. "It has everything you need! Riding the MAX or streetcar is so nice to just relax in the morning versus dealing with traffic. You can read a book, have coffee or breakfast, or even make new friends."
Carsharing services are one key to living a car-light or car-free life. Paying for a car only when you use it can help you save money, drive less, and get more exercise. The American Automobile Association estimates that it costs almost $9,000 a year to own, insure, maintain, and use a personal car! Car2Go and ReachNow are one-way carsharing companies that allow you to quickly rent a car without having to return it to the same location at which it was picked up. For example, you might ride your bike to work but get a flat tire, or not feel like riding home in the rain. Use an app or check online for the nearest car, put your bike on the bike rack, and go! With ReachNow and Car2Go, you only pay for what you use, and there are no monthly fees and no need to gas up.
For more research on the positive impacts of carsharing, check out this article from Access Magazine. To learn more about carsharing options in Portland, click here.
TriMet is working to improve bus service in the region and has proposed changes to 8 bus lines. They are asking for feedback on these changes. Below are details on the changes and how to comment.
From TriMet's website
" In 2017–2018, we’re proposing changes to eight bus lines and the addition of a new route. These changes are meant to improve reliability, connect riders with jobs, streamline service and ease crowding.
We want your feedback on these proposals.
We’re accepting comments online and by phone at 503-238-RIDE (7433) through December 31. Your input will shape our second round of outreach in early 2017.
This route will be changed to serve the retail center on N Hayden Meadows Dr. and improve connections to MAX Yellow Line and C-TRAN at the Delta Park/Vanport MAX station.
Includes a route change that may affect some riders
Map of proposed changes to Line 6
PDF
Weekday frequency will be increased to every 15 minutes between Downtown Portland and Gresham Central Transit Center from the beginning of morning rush hour to the end of evening rush hour to better match ridership demand. Frequency on the Westside will also be increased.
Frequency on SE King Rd. will be increased to better match service on SE McLoughlin Blvd.
Weekday trips will be added during the midday between downtown Portland and St. Johns to better serve growth in North Portland.
Weekday trips will be added during the midday to better serve Downtown Beaverton, Aloha, Willow Creek Transit Center, Tanasbourne and PCC Rock Creek.
This route will be changed to Division St. in Gresham for more direct service to Mt. Hood Community College and in Troutdale for service to the Troutdale Reynolds Industrial Park.
Includes a route change that may affect some riders
Map of proposed changes to Line 81
PDF
Weekend service will be added between Gateway Transit Center, Airport Way and 181st/182nd Ave. to SE Powell Blvd. to improve access to jobs in the Columbia Corridor. All trips between Gateway Transit Center and SE 185th Ave./Rockwood will be extended to SE 182nd Ave. & Powell Blvd.
To increase service on 182nd Ave. and better match ridership demand with bus service levels, this route will split into two bus lines at SE 182nd Ave. & SE Powell Blvd. Bus service between Gresham Transit Center and SE 182nd Ave. & Powell Blvd. will continue to run on its current route, days and frequency.
Includes a route change that may affect some riders
Map of proposed changes to Line 87
PDF
Frequency will be increased and the route will be changed to SE Harmony Rd. Service along Kellogg Creek Rd. and the Milwaukie Marketplace will be removed for faster and more efficient trips to International Way and the Clackamas Community College Harmony Campus.
Includes a route change that may affect some riders
Map of proposed changes to Line 152
PDF
Service from Beaverton Transit Center will be expanded to Washington Square and Tigard Transit Center via SW Lombard Ave., SW Denney Rd., SW Scholls Ferry Rd. and SW Hall Blvd. to serve the Vose, Denney-Whitford and Metzer areas.
Map of proposed new route along Denney/Hall
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You get see updates here.
Adding bike lanes makes a city healthier—even for people who never climb on a bicycle.
Bicycle lanes have been a contentious issue in many U.S. cities, pitting motorists who say there’s no room for more bikes against two-wheel enthusiasts preaching the health benefits of leaving the car at home. But if you lay down enough bike lanes, something magical begins to happen: Non-riders begin to benefit from cleaner air when the network of bike lanes gets complete enough that people start riding bikes to work instead of driving.
Less-comprehensive networks don’t reduce air pollution because people use the lanes only for pleasure riding, which doesn’t displace driving to work, says Babak Mohit, a post-doctoral researcher at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and lead author of a study published online by the journal Injury Prevention. Additionally, bike lanes make existing riders safer and attract new riders, who get cardiovascular benefits from exercise, according to Mohit and his co-authors, Jing Gu and Peter Alexander Muennig.
Cities are embracing the idea. According to an article last year by consulting firm McKinsey & Co., “London is building 12 ‘cycle superhighways’—extra-wide lanes dedicated to bicycles.” McKinsey also cites New York, hilly San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Delhi, and even Moscow as cities that are expanding bike-lane networks.
There’s math to show how cost-effective the strategy could be for public health. When New York spent about $8 million in 2015 on bike lane expansion, the cost per additional “quality-adjusted life year,” or QALY, was about $1,300, according to the Mailman paper.
A QALY, pronounced “qually,” is a standard measure of cost-benefit analysis. It takes into account the number of people who benefit from an intervention, how many years of extra life they can expect to get, and how healthy they will be during the extra years.
As it turns out, when you apply this to bike lanes, it makes them more economical per added QALY than, say, kidney dialysis, which costs over $100,000 per QALY—although not quite as cost-effective as standard vaccines, which cost in the low hundreds of dollars per QALY, Mohit said.
That’s not an argument for yanking people off dialysis machines and using the money to build bike lanes, but it does support the idea that “investments in bike lanes are more cost-effective than the majority of preventive approaches used today,” the paper states.
"While we use NYC as an example, our intent is to provide a much more generalisable model, such that localities can estimate the return on their investment in bike paths," the authors write.
As the wet winter weather comes around you might be wondering how to stay dry as you ride a bike. The Go Lloyd Bicycle Committee will be helping people install discounted fenders on their bikes so they can stay dry through the winter!
There will be two days of FREE Fender installation. Purchase discounted fenders from Go Lloyd for between $10 and $40 (depending on styles) and complimentary installation by Left Coast Bicycles.
When:
Where: Oregon Square NE Holladay St between NE 7th and 9th Ave
Download the Poster here
Employer: Stay at home mom
Neighborhood: Lloyd, lives at Hassalo on Eighth
Commute Distance: 1 mile to daughter's pre-school
Ride (s): Xtra Cycle Edgerunner
Favorite part of riding: Avoiding traffic, keeping her daughter happy
Least favorite: People driving who don't respect the bike box
Carrie when she got her new cargo bike!
Carrie moved to Portland a little over a year ago from Detroit, Michigan with her husband and two-year old daughter. They live in the Velomor, and a big part of moving here was selling their car and getting to living a car-free life. While Carrie originally started riding a bike when she lived in Los Angeles she didn’t really start using a bike as her main form of transportation until moving to Portland. She began riding for short personal trips, not necessarily for commuting. Her original motivation to ditch the car was convenience, it was way faster to ride a bike and avoid the traffic congestion LA is known for. Now she appreciates the good feelings that getting some exercise by riding brings, she feels less stressed and her daughter is happier on the bike than in the car.
Carrie’s daily commute to her daughter’s pre-school is only 1 easy mile and she says riding in Portland is so nice compared to Detroit. There are tons of bike lanes and neighborhood greenways and most of the time people driving are really courteous. While she likes getting to avoid traffic by riding a bike instead of driving, she has found that she her bike helps her explore her new city. She says it is easier to discover new parts of town on a bike, it’s slower and you get to see more. Carrie has found the bike invites people to strike up conversations and enables her to meet new people.
Before she got her Xtra Cycle cargo bike, she used a trailer but that was difficult to park and bring in and out of the house. Her cargo bike makes getting around much easier. Carrie says she found a great online community on Facebook with the Cargo bike group where was able to hear from other families about their experience and ask questions about different types of bikes.
Carrie’s advice for anyone wanting to start riding in Portland is to just go get out and try it. She said she used to obsess over maps to find the best route, but in Portland there are so many good bike route way finding signs, “I thought it would be a lot harder and it wasn’t.”
Lloyd Cycle Station will donate a bike to Community Cycling Center's Holiday Bike Drive for every 100 members who join by September 30th.
Sign up now for the Lloyd Cycle Station and waive the $20 admin fee!
"The Lloyd Cycle Station at Hassalo on Eighth is a world-class bike parking facility for anyone residing in, working in, or visiting the Lloyd neighborhood. With 600 secure bike parking spaces, deluxe shower facilities, lockers, and a bike repair and wash station, it will make you look forward to riding your bike every day." More information here!
~Lloyd Cycle Station
Every trip counts in the Oregon Drive Less Challenge from October 1 to October 15! Take advantage of healty, green travel options for work, school and play. Burn calories instead of gas by biking to work, or walking to the store. Divide the ride and the cost by carpooling, or vanpooling. Take the bus and let someone else drive so you can listen to music.
Log your trips into DriveLessConnect.com and WIN!
It's Easy!
Need Help?
Contact Kathryn Doherty-Chapman at kathryn@golloyd.org or 503-236-6441
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We've started writing up profiles and collecting stories from neighborhood people who ride bikes to work, for fun, and for fitness. Here is our third installment of "Pedaler Profiles" with Jesse Flores. If you know anyone that we should interview, of if YOU want to be interviewed, contact us.
Employer: Oregon Metro, Project Management
Neighborhood: Vancouver, Washington
Commute Distance: 16 miles one way
Ride (s): In Summer, a Scott road bike, in Winter, a Soma Smoothie
Favorite part of riding: Cross training and sense of freedom
Least favorite: Stopping for the I-5 bridge lift
Jesse Flores moved to the Portland area from Anchorage, Alaska 3 and a half years ago and has been bike commuting from Vancouver, Washington ever since. He used to only ride in the summer and only for fun on mountain bike trails. He says living in Portland/Vancouver area with such great bike and transit infrastructure and mild weather there is no excuse not to ride. " I can ride year round and not just 3 months out of the year."
He originally was looking for a way to get more cross training as a marathon runner but quickly found other great benefits to bike commuting, he saved on gas money had a more reliable commute time and was less stressed. His favorite part of riding is when he is zooming past all of the stopped cars stuck in traffic on the interstate bridge to Vancouver. He loves the sense of freedom that comes with riding, no need to get stuck in traffic. He also has noticed that people visiting will stop and chat with him at traffic lights about how great the bike culture here is.
Jesse didn't have to change much to start riding to work, he does get up earlier, but that's about it. When he lived in Anchorage there was a long multi-day bike race that he was hesitant to try called the Fireweed 400. After riding to work here for a few years he felt confident enough to try the 200 mile race with a friend. Now he will race the Fireweed 400 every year and is considering starting a Metro team.
He recommends that if people want to start riding, to try it once a week or to combine it with transit. There are so many benefits to riding for him, from saving money to getting a great workout and it is so refreshing. He used to ride the bus from Vancouver to work in the morning and ride his bike home so he didn't need to shower and change before work in the morning. He suggests making sure you have good gear for the winter to make it easier too. He also notes that the maps and resources for finding good bike routes here are wonderful and to use them.
““We have this great biking infrastructure, we might as well take advantage of it! And it’s great for our health and the environment””
Starting with only 15 miles of track on one line, it now serves the entire region with 60 miles on five lines. Check out this cool video about it's history!
Every intersection is a crosswalk, whether it is marked or not, so everyone driving needs to stop for people attempting to cross.
Check out this fun video reminder about the law, featuring our famed forest dweller Sasquatch!
ReachNow is a free floating car share service, pick a car up wherever it is and drop it off at your destination within the service area. If you are reading this, you have the opportunity to participate in the Preview Drive starting September 6th!
Download the ReachNow app and register:
iOS App: http://tinyurl.com/jc3bfsj
Android App: http://tinyurl.com/jruxjtf
You will be sent codes for free driving credit to be used 9/6-9/18 making ReachNow free to download, register and use during this Preview Drive period!
The Public Launch is on September 19th city-wide with 260 vehicles including BMW 3 Series and MINI Cooper vehicles.
ReachNow Community Launch Party – Friday September 23rd @ Left Bank Annex. Food trucks, silent disco, live art installation, and concert featuring YACHT. If interested in attending, please send RSVPs to matthew.shukaitis@team.reachnow.com
Women Bike is a program to help more women in the Portland metro area try biking for transportation, health, fitness and fun. They host workshops, classes, bike rides and events, and a provide a network of women from all walks of life to answer questions, plan a route, or just meet for coffee.
In many cities women account for only 1/4 of the bike commuters, in Oregon we are ahead of most places with 34% of our bike commuters identifying as women (League of American Bicyclists, 2011). There are many factors that may prevent women from bicycling including concerns about personal safety, transporting children, appearance and professional attire, and more. Helping more women bike helps more people try a more affordable and healthy transportation option, and helps make our transportation system work better by reducing congestion.
Women Bike is a great resource for anyone identifying as a woman to learn about biking, meet other women who bike, get questions answered and go on fun bike rides. They host bi-weekly coffee clubs throughout the city, a monthly happy hour, lead bike rides and tours and have a great Facebook group which is a wonderful online community for finding out how what are the best shorts to wear, route recommendations, gear exchanges and more.
Let's celebrate their success and see what they have in store for the future at their anniversary party on September 14th.
The LDCA is proudly supporting the Love Lloyd Trash Cleanup. Our event will start outside of Green Zebra Grocery and will end on NE Broadway. The Livable Lloyd Group will be organizing up to 10 teams with at least one person per team, who will walk from Multnomah Street North to Broadway, picking up trash on their designated street. Ending on Broadway, then off to lunch as a group at a nearby local restaurant. Activities include: Litter Cleanup.
Meeting Spot
You may park at Hassalo on Eighth parking garage. Entrance on 9th Avenue between Multnomah and Holladay. We can validate parking. Outside Green Zebra Grocery between 8:00 and 8:30 AM. Coffee and donuts will be served. We will start promptly at 8:45am.
Where
Lloyd
700 NE Multnomah St
Portland, OR 97232
When
Saturday, 09/24/2016
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Safety issues
Traffic, Hazardous Materials/Needles
http://solveoregon.org/get-involved/events/love-lloyd-trash-cleanup
Do you ride your bike to work to or from Lloyd? Want to start but aren't sure how? Then let Go Lloyd get your breakfast! Meet other neighborhood bike folk and learn about cool upcoming events and neighborhood transportation news. If you are new to riding this is a great place to learn about a good route, cool gear and meet other nice bike folks!
Thursday August 18th, 7-9am
@ Lloyd Center Plaza, NE 9th and Multnomah St.
Click here for a PDF poster to download to share at your office!
"From the start of service on Sunday, August 21, through end of service on Saturday, September 3, crews will be making improvements near the Rose Quarter to increase MAX reliability, improve the system and make for a smoother ride.
During this time, MAX Blue, Green and Red lines will be disrupted. All MAX lines will run at reduced frequency and three MAX stations will close (Rose Quarter Transit Center, Convention Center and NE 7th Ave).
MAX shuttle bus service will connect Rose Quarter and Lloyd Center and serve stops near closed stations."
Get all the details here-- Trimet.org/alerts/rosequarter
For a downloadable PDF poster with the shuttle map click here.
We are the team behind Go Lloyd. A team with a diverse experience and knowledge of all things Lloyd. Consider us an extension of your building's tenant services. We will find the proper transportation solutions for your growing business's needs. Contact us
Go Lloyd • 700 NE Multnomah Street, Suite 340 • Portland, Oregon 97232 • 503-236-6441 • Email
Office and Store Hours: Monday – Thursday, 10 AM – 2 PM, or by appointment. Contact michael@golloyd.org
