Saturday, December 14, 2024
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Vancouver version of Peacock Lane with live snowfall
Tom Howe
Sat, Dec 14, 2024, 5:30 PM
Ride leaves North end of MAX station at 6pm after arrival of 5:55 pm train. If riding MAX plan arrival on the 5:55 train or the one earlier.
Ride is a loop
End location: Ride ends back at Expo Center MAX Station
Franklin Street is Vancouver's version of Peacock Lane where all of the houses have holiday decorations, this year with over 200,000 lights. There is also live entertainment, and on the evening of this bike ride there will be live snowfall thanks to snow-generating machines. The ride meets at the Expo Center MAX station, which is the final stop on the MAX Yellow Line. A dedicated bike path starts at that station and goes all the way to Vancouver over the I-5 bridge. In downtown Vancouver we ride along Columbia Street, which was recently enhanced to make it very bike friendly. The street has buffered bike lanes with green bike boxes at each intersection. The buffer zone contains ZICLA-style lane separators, which are rubber-like curbs several feet long and several inches high. These in effect create a continuous curb with openings between the ZICLAS to allow exiting the bike lane when needed. Columbia Street has the most extensive use of ZICLA separators of any bikeway in the area. Franklin Street is only a couple blocks from Columbia Street, and other homes in the area have gotten into the act, so will see some highly-decorated houses on the way to Franklin. Total round trip distance for the ride from and back to the Expo Center MAX station is about 10 miles. This is a BikeLoud-affiliated event giving Portland residents an opportunity to see how Vancouver handles bike infrastructure on the city's premiere bikeway. Hope to see you on the ride!
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