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If you fault Terry Bellamy‘s District Department of Transportation, after all, it won’t be on failing to study things. The holdup on the L and M Street crosstown lanes is in part due to DDOT’s determination to see how the other cycletracks have worked out. For these studies, the agency has subcontracted with Jennifer Dill, an associate professor at Portland State University and Director of the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium—-the academic affiliation, Dill says, helps reassure participants that the study is neutral. She and a colleague are coordinating the surveys of more than 150 cyclists and 300 residents around each facility, along with video observations of how people use them.
Just in case you were worried that the Gray administration wasn’t being deliberate enough on this bike lane stuff.