Out on the line
The rest of the Arlo Guthrie bike path (from Flavel St. down to Clackamas Towne Center) was opened a month or so ago, but I’d not yet ridden any part of it except from Flavel St north to the Springwater Trail. Today I decided to correct that horrible deficiency. It’s not a very well designed path – it keeps the traditional i205 path design of having segments of the path just sort of dead end at the side of a major street, and then you have to deduce where the path is going to resume by following along the trolley line looking for where it rematerializes – but it does get you from east Portland down to Sunnyside Road without having to spend even a minute on 82nd Ave (I did one Boring loop this summer where I came back in along Sunnyside and 82nd, and the ride along 82nd was, um, not particularly pleasant.)
But I’m not going to complain (much); it rides alongside a trolley line, and that means I get to see the big interurban cars whooshing north and south on moderately close headways while I go creeping alongside the line. And if I’m riding the midlifecrisismobile, that means I get to take the Pentax and have it right at hand when something interesting shows up.