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We want to make Portland’s Northwest District safer and more convenient for walking, biking, and taking public transit. Through the Northwest in Motion project, we will develop a list of specific projects that can be built in and around the neighborhood over the next five years.

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Neighborhood Greenways

Neighborhood greenways are calm streets designed to create a safe and comfortable biking and walking experience. They allow people of all ages and abilities to use low-volume, low-speed neighborhood streets rather than busy arterials.

Neighborhood Greenways typically feature a shared street environment rather than separated bike lanes, and use elements such as speed bumps, traffic diverters, enhanced crossings, and way-finding to ensure that the street is clearly prioritized for biking while preserving local automobile access. Neighborhood greenways are great walking routes, providing an alternative to walking along busy traffic-heavy streets.

Key Design Elements

Neighborhood Greenways are intentionally designed to be low-stress streets that are great places for walking, biking, and rolling.

Transit Improvements

Transit service, including bus and streetcar, is essential to providing NW residents and employees travel options other than driving.

However, transit service often experiences heavy delay due to overall traffic congestion, which impacts schedule reliability and makes it a less attractive option. Access to transit can also be a challenge, with not enough crossings at bus stops and sometimes a lack of space and amenities at the stops themselves. Additionally, buses and bikes can come into conflict when they share a roadway.

Transit Improvements are mainly focused on addressing the worst delay issues along bus lines and reducing conflicts with other modes, but also include some targeted access to transit improvements and stop improvements

Key Design Elements

While PBOT does not operate TriMet buses, it can still play a major role in improving transit access and reliability by making small, but high impact changes to the streets where transit operates.

Corridor Safety Improvements

Busy traffic streets are the places where crossing improvements and other roadway improvement projects can have the biggest benefit for the safety and comfort of people walking, biking, or accessing transit.

Corridor Safety is mainly focused on providing safe crossings of busy streets at regular intervals, but also includes improvements such as traffic calming, signal upgrades, pavement reconstruction, and bike lane enhancements.

Key Design Elements

Corridor Safety Improvement Projects are located on Northwest Portland’s busiest streets. While these streets carry higher volumes of vehicles, these projects use design tools to address conflicts between roadway users.