rond..@spiritone.com

Please click on, enlarge so you can see specific areas and tell the city you want off road cycling options as part of Parks and green spaces. Every pro bike voice is extremely important! You can believe that there are many who do not want bikes getting any access in parks....especially Forest Park. Tell them you want neighborhood access for kids and families. Tell them you want XC (narrow) trails in Forest Park. Lief is not a trail!!! Tell them you want to ride Maple and Wildwood and tell them more and more people who ride bikes want do the same. Make our voices be as strong as the people who think the parks are just for what “they” want. This is about equity. Tell them you get your relaxation and communing with nature on your bike. We deserve a place in these spaces, but if we do not speak up, we will not get that to happen. Overwhelm them with comments about trails (pump tracks are fine, but do not let them get away with building 2 or 3 of them and calling it an off road cycling program. We want trail. We want it for the youngest and the oldest. We pay taxes and expect them to provide access to healthy, lifelong activities...of which cycling is a major one. We could ride trail right now even though the athletic fields in the parks are closed because of too much rain. Well designed trail can take rain. Please comment. If you have a favorite place...even if it is listed as not an option.....comment on it anyway! They need to get outside their box and we need to make them do just that. The people who live next to Forest Park for example do not own that park....all of us own it.
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Portland has launched an interactive map to gather your feedback on the potential sites for off-road cycling in the city: Click on a site, understand its potential, and submit your feedback directly.