Traffic calming installed outside violence-plagued high school
This is another example of Portland using street designs to tamp down vehicle-based violence.
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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
Neighbors say traffic calming on NE Sacramento ruins ‘view corridor’
Another neighborhood association is taking the City of Portland’s transportation bureau to task over a traffic-calming project. An 10-block section of Northeast Sacramento Street west of 60th has become one of Portland’s most people-centric, calm and quiet streets for many reasons. Part of its appeal is organic — the low-volume, neighborhood street is perched on … Read more
New fire bureau policy could allow speed bumps on more commercial streets
For years, as Portland has looked for ways to calm auto traffic in commercial districts like N Denver, SE Stark or NE 28th, the biggest tool in its shed – the speed bump – has been off limits.