At open house, east Portlanders get first glimpse at upcoming street projects
Thursday, May 17th, 2018
People had plenty of feedback to share at the first of two open houses held at Midland Library on SE 122nd Avenue last night.
(Photos: Caleb Diehl)
Scott Dalton’s wife was walking home from Safeway in December 2017 when a person driving a car struck and killed her.
“She was in the crosswalk,” he says. “One car stopped and the other car didn’t.”
Dalton, a retired journalist, has lived in east Portland near 117th Avenue, for twenty years. In that time he’s seen a steady stream of people die while walking or biking. This year alone, five people have been killed while walking in the neighborhoods east of I-205.
Dalton showed up at the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s open house Wednesday night hopeful that a slate of new projects will finally bring change to the neighborhood. In the past four years, PBOT has pumped $255 million into its “East Portland in Motion” projects, many of which will break ground in early 2019.
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