Southeast Portlander Nicole Funke has walked across SE Hawthorne Blvd countless times. As a pedestrian and transit advocate who travels around Portland without a car, Funke knows about the dangers cars and their drivers pose, and she does everything she can to keep herself safe while getting around. But after a recent run-of-the-mill grocery trip … Read more
Four years after one of its bus drivers fatally collided with two people in a downtown Portland crosswalk, TriMet is testing a few devices that use sounds and lights to show when a bus is turning.
As we gather with our loved ones for the holidays, let’s not fool ourselves into thinking the work of fixing Portland’s still-deadly streets is finished.
A makeshift memorial near the site of the collision.(Photos © J. Maus) The Oregonian reports that a lawsuit has been filed by the family of Lindsay Leonard, the 23-year old Reed College graduate who was killed by a man who struck her with his car as she walked across SE Foster Road back in November. … Read more
This mystery crosswalk on E. Burnside at NE 8th seems to be working.(Photo: Doug Klotz)
