All built up with nowhere to go: Transportation funding and the link between housing and mobility
What good is affordable housing if the only safe way to leave it is by car?
Neighborhoods
PBOT takes action to tame notorious s-curve on SE Woodstock
After years of car-home collisions, residents can sleep a bit easier.
Alpenrose permitting process provides peek at sidewalk, bike lane potential
These early decisions determine whether sidewalks and bike lanes will be built at all.
Decades in the making, ribbon finally cut for SW Capitol Hwy project
A jubilant day that was decades in the making.
City releases progress report on southwest bike/walk infrastructure
The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) released its progress report for the Southwest in Motion (SWIM) plan last month and announced that nine projects and 21 crossing enhancements have been completed since the plan was adopted in December, 2019. The report opened by noting that “less of the planned bike network has been built in … Read more
City pays bicycle rider $25,000 to settle rail track crash lawsuit
The city knows these cycling hazards expose them to legal risk.
PBOT wants state grant to redesign North Denver and Lombard intersection
The off-set intersection has a long crash history.
New piece of Red Electric Trail taking shape
Slow but surely this mythical trail is getting built.
Transportation issues loom large over Alpenrose development
300 new homes, how about some bike lanes and sidewalks too?
ODOT’s $41 million Pacific Hwy project breaks ground in Tigard
But what’s happening up north, with SW Barbur and the Light Rail project?
Sunday Parkways season kicks off in east Portland
First of three coming this year.
New diverter on NW Vaughn will prohibit driver turns and improve greenway
It’s all part of an effort to make NW 24th a better bike street.