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History of the neighborhood looms large over this project.(Photo © J. Maus) At their meeting earlier this week, the Stakeholder Advisory Committee for the North Williams Traffic Safety Operations Project spent several hours hashing out new language to guide their decision making process and to add two key elements to the project’s “purpose and objectives.”
A large crowd turned out for the Williams Project Community Forum. This photo shows the group discussion portion of the event. On Tuesday night nearly 200 people came together for a ‘Community Forum’ to learn about a neighborhood’s past and share their opinions on the myriad issues surrounding the City’s North Williams Avenue Traffic Safety … Read more
How can we make Williams safer and more pleasant to use?(View looking north on Williams just before N Failing.)(Photos © J. Maus)
The event will include facilitated group discussions. (Photo © J. Maus) Race Talks, a discussion series sponsored by Multnomah County, will tackle the complex and sensitive topic of how race has impacted a local transportation project. The free event, “Coming Together on North Williams Avenue: Reconciling Neighborhood’s Past with Proposed Bike Lane” will be held … Read more
Traffic on Williams Avenue.(Photo © J. Maus) There are some new developments in the project to improve bicycling and traffic safety on N. Williams Avenue. Following the most recent Stakeholder Advisory Committee meeting on August 2nd, project staff have announced that in lieu of a September meeting, they will host two tours of the street … Read more
New committee member Michelle DePass speaking with KATU news last night.(Image: Still from video below) Since the meeting last week where racism and gentrification were the main topics of discussion, there have been some developments around the City’s North Williams Traffic Safety Operations project. The official Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) met last night at Legacy … Read more
NOTE: 5 and 1/2 years later, I have decided to delete this cartoon because now I fully understand how inappropriate its contents were. In hindsight, I regret publishing it. I’m sorry to everyone that was offended by it. — Jonathan Maus, 2/10/17. — For background, see past coverage of the Williams project. For past cartoons … Read more
The Skanner Bernie Foster, the Publisher of The Skanner — Portland’s award-winning and self-described, “African American newspaper that keeps you up to date with everything going on in the black community” — has weighed in on the North Williams Avenue project. In his editorial, Foster urges his readers to speak up on this and other … Read more
Lee Moore, Chairman of the Housing Authority of Portland, was brought in by PBOT to facilitate the meeting.(Photos © J. Maus)
“… if the community doesn’t have the power to choose a solution, it doesn’t matter how good the solution is… To empower the community and find a way forward, I pledge that my staff and the Portland Bureau of Transportation staff will support you and work with all stakeholders to make progress.”— Mayor Sam Adams … Read more
The N Williams Ave project continues to inspire a robust discussion about race, bicycle infrastructure and gentrification in North Portland. If you are interested in how these topics intersect in Portland (or how they don’t), I recommend reading through the many thoughtful comments left on previous posts. Early this morning, a comment came in from … Read more
Traffic on Williams is a mess.(Photos © J. Maus)