(Photos: Aaron Brown/No More Freeways PDX)
The kids know.
Students at Tubman Middle School wore masks to protest toxic air from I-5 drivers
(Photos: Aaron Brown/No More Freeways PDX)
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(Photos: Aaron Brown/No More Freeways PDX)
Tubman Middle School parents meet school and city staff to discuss traffic safety issues
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“We believe kids coming to this school need an elevated skillset to navigate these streets.”
— Dana Dickman, PBOT
This is the meeting that should have taken place before two students where hit.
On Tuesday, Harriet Tubman Middle School officials and bureau of transportation staff met with parents who are concerned that their children will be run over by automobile users while walking and biking to class. Tubman sits on Flint Avenue, a busy driving route that’s the main access to the Broadway Bridge. One block northeast is the wide and fast intersection of North Russell Avenue and Vancouver. Interstate 5 — and all its associated hazards — is literally in the school’s backyard.
Parents, PBOT, and PPS struggle to tame traffic around Tubman
(Photos: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland)
“Everyone’s afraid their kid is going to get hit.”
— Jillian Wieseneck
No one was surprised when a sixth-grade student was hit by a car driver while crossing North Flint at Russell near Harriet Tubman Middle School last week.
Both times in the past three years that this school has re-opened to students, attempts have been made to educate the public about the traffic chaos that takes place in front of the school each day during drop-off and pick-up. This year the site houses a middle school and observers say conditions are worse than ever before. And as reported in more detail by The Oregonian this week, parents had flagged dangerous conditions on Flint for months prior to the opening of school.
Driver, student collide in crosswalk in front of Harriet Tubman Middle School
Many of us had bad feelings about the chaotic traffic on North Flint Avenue during school drop-off. Now those concerns appear to have been very warranted.
Less than two months into the school season, a young student walking to class was injured by an auto user as she crossed the street in front of Harriet Tubman Middle School yesterday morning.
Several readers contacted us about the collision and we were eventually forwarded this email from the school’s principal, Natasha Butler: