Youth climate justice organization Sunrise PDX will host a bike ride July 31 called “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” a tour of the best and worst of Portland’s bike infrastructure, as part of this summer’s Pedalpalooza . The bike ride will start at Ankeny Rainbow Road Plaza, 2720 SE Ankeny St., at 7 pm. The plaza happens to be a positive example of bike-friendly infrastructure, since it’s a car-free and brightly-colored block along the Ankeny Street Neighborhood Greenway.

The tour will then veer to some of our city’s less-impressive bike lanes, such as on nearby car-centric thoroughfares Sandy Boulevard and East Burnside Street.

“When you are in a bike lane and it’s not green, and there are multiple lanes of traffic, and cars are zipping past you, it makes you feel like you’re going t

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