Earlier this year Portland announced they would convert 100 miles of residential streets to Portland Greenways. This map shows the existing and future Greenways.
One of them starts one block from our house and runs for a half mile before hitting a major, well busy, street. We took a tour of it. There is no indication of it at our end. It was a single lane to get out for cars, with the other half of the street reserved for bicycle traffic. As we walked we saw three signs that read “Neighborhood Greenway”. There was no car traffic. Though that is not unusual on a Sunday morning. At our busy street, 52nd Avenue, we saw what looked to be actual Greenway activity, signage and a block against traffic.
This was the only markers for the Greenway. It is new. I’m looking forward to more construction (?) of the Greenways to become standard traffic.
On our walk back home we took a parallel street. It was just as quiet.
