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The handiwork of PBOT Traffic Maintenance Supervisor Kirstin Byer and her crew.
The new effort to replace the I-5 bridge between Portland and Vancouver is well underway. DOTs from Oregon and Washington are pouring money into an immense public outreach/PR campaign and planning process that is so slick it’s scary. Along with hosting lots of advisory committee meetings and splashing content across multiple social media channels, the … Read more
A data project billed as the “next generation urban planning tool” that involved over two years of negotiations between Metro, TriMet, the City of Portland, and Google-owner Alphabet has crashed-and-burned. On Saturday, Red Tail Media reported that a contract between Metro and Sidewalk Labs to develop the Replica tool for regional use been officially terminated. … Read more
Hi everyone. As we near our 17th spring together, I cannot think of a better time to learn more about who follows our work and how we can do it better.
If you’re looking for a great way to get more involved in advocacy on a statewide level, this could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. The Oregon Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (“ahb-pack”) has started recruitment for two openings to their 8-member group. The OBPAC was created in 1973 after the passage of the … Read more
There was a notable debate at the Portland Planning and Sustainability Commission meeting Tuesday night on a topic near and dear to our hearts: the Portland transportation bureau’s recent decision to re-stripe Hawthorne Boulevard without bike lanes.
It’s one thing for critiques of a project to swirl around transportation and advocacy circles; it’s another thing when a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter hops onto the story. That’s what happened today with the Willamette Week’s publication of an article titled Questions About the Footprint of the I-5 Rose Quarter Project Intensify. The news that ODOT … Read more
This story is by northeast Portland resident Mateen Richey, a new contributor who you might recall from our profile of him back in January.
