For less than $500,000, 3 Portland road diets are preventing 37 crashes every year
One of the least-understood tricks in traffic engineering has a big payoff.
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City switches plan for Division detour: Signs will point to Powell, not Clinton
Electronic signs will instruct drivers heading east at 26th Avenue to turn seven blocks south to Powell Boulevard rather than one block south to Clinton.
Is Portland’s newest urban corridor good or bad? City is asking residents
Portland’s planning department is trying to figure out if the rapid transformation of Southeast Division Street will become a template or a cautionary tale.
Visualizing the cost of local transportation projects
Sometimes it’s hard to visualize these things. So we gave it a shot.
Miracle on 34th? Neighbors ask city to improve bike access by removing auto parking
A group of homeowners is asking the City of Portland to please remove a row of auto parking spaces from their street.
As low-car lifestyle spreads, residents praise new bike lanes on SE Division
I learned two things: That everyone I met more or less likes it, and that low-car life is now very common in mid-Southeast Portland.
Photos of ODOT’s new Division Street undercrossing on I-205 path
New and smooth.(Photos: Joe Hamilton) Thanks to a newly built undercrossing of SE Division, people on bikes have one less stop to make while riding on the I-205 path. ODOT put the finishing touches on their $750,000 I-205 Shared-Use Path Division Undercrossing Project earlier this month and they’re hosting a “celebratory gathering” this morning to … Read more
City will begin adding new bike lanes to SE Division this Monday
PBOT graphic The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) is set to begin work on a significant project that will add more vehicle access and capacity on SE Division. The project will re-configure the existing four-lane stretch of road between SE 60th and 80th into a five-lane cross section. Instead of four standard vehicle lanes, the … Read more
Man recovering after serious injury collision on SE Division/122nd – UPDATED
Police say Hector Perez rode his bike out of the Shell gas station (on the right), across a few lanes of traffic and then rode “right in front of the van” that hit him. (View is looking west on Division, east of 122nd)
Careless driving to blame for death of woman in SE Division crosswalk
The bus operator was in this lane prior to collision. The Portland Police Bureau have given the driver of a school bus two citations for her role in a collision that killed a 43-year-old woman who was walking across a southeast Portland street. Renee Bates was walking on SE Division with her husband Shawn Bates … Read more
Man has serious injuries after collision at SE 122nd and Division
This just in from PPB: We’ll post full story on the Front Page once we get more details… TRAFFIC CLOSED ON DIVISION EAST OF 122ND AVENUE – BICYCLIST STRUCK BY VEHICLE News Release from Portland Police Bureau Posted on FlashAlert: July 10th, 2013 4:37 PM This afternoon, Wednesday July 10, 2013, at 3:58 p.m., East … Read more
City will move forward with road diet, bike lanes on SE Division
Bike lanes coming soon. The Bureau of Transportation has announced their intention to move forward on the re-striping of SE Division between SE 60th and 80th. The decision comes after a public meeting held Tuesday where neighborhood residents and other stakeholders expressed strong support for the “road diet” and addition of bike lanes as a … Read more
Comment of the Week: Gratitude for N/NE Broadway project