Within five years, Portland hopes to increase the number of residents living 0.5-miles from a family-friendly bicycle and pedestrian-friendly facility from less than 25 percent to over 80 percent, said Mark Lear of the Portland Bureau of Transportation in this Streetfilms video. The city's neighborhood greenway project will also increase the number of speed bumps on bike boulevards, which are dedicated bike streets. Improved bicycle infrastructure, such as through-routes, traffic barriers, bicycle crossings at busy streets, such as Martin Luther King Boulevard, and other enhancements are also part of the plan to get more people biking in the city.

Another goal is to get car traffic on neighborhood greenway streets down to below 500 cars per day - from the present volumes of over 1,000 cars per day. Lear said the city is working with the state legislature to get a 20-miles-per-hour speed limit passed on neighborhood greenways to, in part, help to achieve that end.

One of the most interesting features is the installation of guide signs along the neighborhood greenway network. These signs list a maximum of three destinations, how far away each individual destination is and how long it will take to bike there. The painted sharrow flowers are a nice touch, too, as they signal motorists to share the road with cyclists. In other words, cyclists will have access to more of the information, safety features and conveniences motorists have enjoyed for years.