Credit: Paul Cone

As BikePortland reported, the city has installed a series of bike boulevard enhancements along SE Clinton, including little bicycle street-sign toppers, two new bike corrals, and three of these “bike flags”:

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  • Paul Cone

Which immediately remind me of these:

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Sarah Shay Mirk reported on transportation, sex and gender issues, and politics at the Mercury from 2008-2013. They have gone on to make many things, including countless comics and several books.

32 replies on “SE Clinton “Bike Flags””

  3. Ugh…I hate accepting free federal money to improve visibility for all road users and help beautify neighborhood streets. Yuck.

  4. @Oregometry: One person’s “beautify neighborhood streets” is another person’s “ugly kitschy shit that’s going to be embarassing in six months”.

  11. It’s federally earmarked money mandated to be used for bikeway markings. So Another World Blog, short answer is no. Graham, Number Six and frankieb: would you rather they just painted annoyingly-colored stripes across roads like some cities do?

    Also, yes, tweakers will have these down in no time.

  12. Don’t drag me into this shit youngster! (it’s obvious). I am one hundred percent in favor of this! I am only stopping by to mock Graham.

    -Number Six

  16. Strange how we can never seem to get any” federally-earmarked money” around here for things like ceiling tiles in schools, asphalt or anything other than ridiculous nonsense like this.

    If this $ absolutely HAD to be spent on “bikeway markings,” then why not more bike boxes or paint for bike lanes? This seems like a waste of cash.

  17. c’mon, how much could that possibly cost? i’m sure we pay more for police overtime every last-thursday. should we cancel those also? maybe use that money to hire a new committee to talk about building another bridge.

    don’t get me wrong, it is ugly. but i’m sure the cost almost nothing

  20. And how many streets could they have paved with that money? Because even one block of going is worth a mile of those stupid signs.

  25. Reposting:

    “Before anyone goes off again on how this money was spent – please note, this is a Regional Arts Council grant. The money was required to be spent to improve aesthetics, and the public was specifically solicited to help determine how to leverage that to provide visual reminders of the bike aspects of the corridor in an attempt to increase driver awareness.”

  28. Since the local counties, metro and city of portland give money to the RACC, I wonder still what percentage of these funds were put up by the public?
    So, the PBOT – funded by us, and the RACC, largely funded by us, paid for this, correct?

  29. “RACC board chair Carol R. Smith and executive director Eloise Damrosch shared highlights of the organizations’ annual report — available here. One of the early bar charts Damrosch shared: the city invested about $4.9 million in RACC last year, and RACC raised about $1.8 million in funds from other sources to provide $6.7 million in grants and services for the local arts community. “

    So…. what does this tell you?

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