You might recall the note from two summers ago that Cherriots Transportation Options group was starting to update the bike map.
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| Available on paper and online |
It's published now and being distributed to bike shops, Travel Salem, and also available at Cherriots customer service counter. Online the MPO/COG is hosting a pdf. (Also, a purely online version for mobile devices.)
If you want a paper copy, it's time to go grab one! Typically they run out.
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| 2024 map |
One new feature is the variable line width: Wide means the presence of a bike lane or wide shoulder, narrow means without. This adds a dimension to the assessment of traffic levels introduced in the 2012 edition. It also points out the "thinness" of our low-traffic bikeway/greenway system. We haven't installed diverters and traffic calming on very many designated low-traffic routes at all. We're stuck too much still with the 1970s concept for signed routes only.
Here's the development of the map over the last decade.
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| Legend and downtown from 2012 map |
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| From 2017 map |
One omission is that with the urban area split into north and south halves, there is no regional map, going out to Stayton, Silverton, Dallas, McMinville, lots of the close-in valley destinations and areas, on the flip side. That's a real loss.
It also includes bike repair stations.
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| Are the stations themselves in working order? |
Last summer, which was the last time I checked the Riverfront Park station, it was stripped of tools and effectively dead.
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| Stripped (June 2023) |
The Transportation Options group at Cherriots has not always seemed like they used the "options" for which they advocated, too much an armchair and driver group. (It was interesting to learn this election that a former manager of it had worked for an oil company, and this might have explained a lot of what had seemed like a real autoist bias in the group, even as ostensibly they advocated for walking, biking, and busing.) The map might need more field checking in the details. Maybe there will be more to say later.
Still, even with online mapping resources, a paper map can be mighty handy sometimes. Pick one up!
2 comments:
Another instance of autoist bias in the Transportation Options group was the weirdness in the very first "Wander Walks" map back in 2015, which looked like something formulated in mapping software, and not anything developed through actual walking.
The bike repair station at Riverfront Park is operated by Salem Parks, so notify them when there is damage or missing tools. The tools have been replaced in the past.
The online map shows the bike routes outside Salem and Keizer.
Ray
MWVCOG/SKATS
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