Freeway fight turns to half-billion dollar expansion of I-205 in Clackamas County
A fight against plans to expand the only remaining section of I-205 in Oregon that isn’t three lanes in each direction.
Projects
Podcast: The fight for a ‘right sized’ Interstate Bridge project
A boost in the arm for the “Right Size” coalition.
SW Capitol Highway has been completely transformed
Last week I took a look at this street for the first time since construction began and was astonished at what PBOT has built.
PBOT, Depave work toward solution for sketchy SE 7th and Washington intersection
A nonprofit is pushing a bold new vision for SE 7th and Stark.
PBOT tries to tamp down concerns about I-5 Rose Quarter design
A PBOT staffer told the Bicycle Advisory Committee meeting this week that it’s too early to panic and everything will be just fine.
New freight (and bike!) bridge considered north of St. Johns
The dream of a safe bike connection to Sauvie Island starts here.
PBOT will break ground on East Burnside bus lane and new bike lane this week
This week, the Portland Bureau of Transportation begin work on the East Burnside Rose Lane project. This project is part of PBOT’s Central City in Motion (CCIM) plan to speed up transit and improve infrastructure for people biking and walking. A Rose Lane on east Burnside is being installed to improve transit times for TriMet bus … Read more
Traffic calming is coming to these Portland streets
The Portland Bureau of Transportation has just released a list of streets where we can expect to see some form of traffic calming in the coming few years. Thanks to funding from the Fixing Our Streets program (a 10-cent local gas tax that funds safety projects), PBOT is able to attack neighborhood street projects in … Read more
Columbia Slough and Marine Drive path gaps to be filled with Metro bond funds
There were a lot of exciting Portland-area active transportation projects up for Metro funding through its 2025-2027 Regional Flexible Funds Allocation (RFFA) cycle, and not all of them were chosen. But Metro has other pots of money to dip into for regional projects, and they just announced how they’ll use $20 million from the 2019 … Read more
ODOT wins ‘diversity leadership’ award for I-5 Rose Quarter project
Interstate 5 through the Rose Quarter is a monument to the systemic racism that pervaded the Federal Highway Administration and their enablers at the Oregon Department of Transportation in the 1960s. The path of the freeway cut through the heart of Portland’s Black community like a “meat axe” and displaced hundreds of people. The loss … Read more
PBOT project has potential for parking-protected pedaling on NE Killingsworth
The City of Portland is gearing up to repave Northeast Killingsworth Street between 53rd and Cully Boulevard and parking-protected bike lanes are on the table. The project is similar to the Hawthorne Pave & Paint in that the transportation bureau (PBOT) is seizing an opportunity to redesign the roadway in conjunction with a planned paving … Read more
First look at a possible I-5 bridge bike and pedestrian path
After months and months of draft renderings from the team behind the planned expansion of I-5 between Washington and Oregon that focused on the highway, on Thursday the public finally got a look at what a potential bike and pedestrian path being planned as a part of the project could look like. At a meeting … Read more