The Portland Bureau of Transportation is ramping up work on a mission that can convey safer crossings and upgraded bike lanes to SE 148th Avenue. The mission, funded by a $7.1 million federal grant awarded by Metro in 2022, goals to handle security and make it extra comfy for folks to stroll, entry transit and trip bicycles on 148th. PBOT considers 148th one of many metropolis’s most harmful streets and it has a tragic document of deadly crashes.
The mission will add eight new crossings and replace the present bike lane between NE Halsey St and SE Powell Blvd. PBOT is about to construct safer crossings at; NE Sofa, midblock between E Burnside and SE Stark, SE Alder, SE Taylor, SE Market, SE Lincoln, SE Grant, and SE Clinton. Current bike lanes might be widened and a buffer area might be added. PBOT says they may use a mixture of paint-only buffers and a few curb-protected bike lanes.
Regardless of its substandard bike amenities, this part of SE 148th is classed within the Transportation System Plan as a Main Metropolis Bikeway, which implies it needs to be constructed to encourage a excessive stage of bicycle use. One cause it’s an essential avenue within the community is as a result of it connects to different present and future bikeways. The higher bike lanes deliberate on this mission will connect with a future (already funded) neighborhood greenway at SE 148th and SE Mill and a protected intersection coming to SE 148th and SE Stark (just like present one at SE Division).
PBOT launched a mission survey Monday the place they ask the general public for suggestions on the revised cross-sections.
Their plan entails eradicating some area on the highway presently used as free parking for automobile customers. In wider sections of the highway, parking might be eliminated on one aspect of the road (see above); however in narrower sections, parking might be eliminated solely to make room for wider bike lanes and median islands on the new crossings (see beneath). As is all the time the case on tasks like this, PBOT makes each effort to retain as a lot parking as doable.
Complete mission value was estimated to be $7.9 million again in 2022, so it’s probably greater now. Metro’s grant was for $7.1 and PBOT was anticipated to provide you with about $800,000 in native match. Again in Could, this was certainly one of tasks PBOT threatened to delay as a result of funds constraints; however due to the Mayor’s funds proposal that rescued the bureau’s funding scenario, that end result was averted.
For those who care about this part of SE 148th, be sure you take the survey and let PBOT know what you consider their plans to this point. The survey is open till July fifteenth.
— PBOT mission web site. Additionally, I biked this part of 148th with Metropolis Council candidate Timur Ender in February 2024. Hear us discuss it and look at extra images right here.
