In a recent
posting, the BTA Blog lists some lessons from Minneapolis for biking in Portland.
The author, who recently spent time in Minneapolis, says that while he won’t go into which city is better for biking, “I saw a lot of things in the Twin Cities that I'd like to see in Portland.”
Among them: an expansive rail trail network, physical separation of biking and walking paths, a bike center, and bike sharing.
Keeping pedestrians and bicyclists apart is important, he says.
“Minneapolis' trails are better than Portland's in one very particular way: they separate people on bikes from people on foot whenever possible. At the very least, there is usually a solid painted line separating bicyclists from pedestrians and, wherever possible, they're completely separate paths with a strip of grass in between," he says.