Results of an informal survey on transportation improvements to Garden Home Road between SW Capital Highway to the east, and the intersection with Multnomah Boulevard to the west.

Bloom 2009: Tryon Life Community Farm's 5th Annual Spring Benefit

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Bloom 2009
Official Press Release
www.tryonfarm.org/share/bloom-2009

Bloom 2009: Tryon Life Community Farm's 5th Annual Spring Benefit

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People on Foot Have Legal Rights

Do you enjoy walking but would like to know more about your rights as a pedestrian? Did you know that pedestrians have the right-of-way in all crosswalks, marked and unmarked? Have you almost been hit crossing the street when walking or running?

The SWTrails Committee and Elders in Action will be hosting a Pedestrian Rights Clinic on Thursday, April 23, 6:30-8 pm, Multnomah Center, 7688 SW Capitol Hwy.

People on Foot Have Legal Rights

Do you enjoy walking but would like to know more about your rights as a pedestrian? Did you know that pedestrians have the right-of-way in all crosswalks, marked and unmarked? Have you almost been hit crossing the street when walking or running?

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SWTrails is pleased to present Bicycle Facilities Strategy to Reach Platinum Status in Southwest Portland.

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Saturday, September 20, 2008, at 2 pm

Capitol Hill Elementary playground, 8401 SW 17th Ave

TriMet has issued the results of bicycling related surveys they conducted last August via the web, and subsequently onboard MAX trains. Here is an executive summary of their executive summary:

Background:

According to a recent national study, integrating bikes and transit:

• Extends the range of transit
• Provides greater mobility options to customers at the beginning and end of their transit trips
• Has the potential to increase transit ridership
• Encourages cycling by giving cyclists the option of avoiding unsafe streets, hills, fatigue, and poor conditions (darkness and weather) if bikes are allowed onboard
• Has the potential to decrease congestion and help reduce air pollution by providing an alternative to driving

Back Story:
Portland City Commissioner Sam Adams believes that a way to fast track the addition of sidewalks and other street improvements to what are called collector streets could be through the use of Halo LIDS, a concept that would spread the cost of improving streets across a larger benefiting area versus a conventional LID (Local Improvement District), which is typically used for local streets in which most or all of the benefiting properties abut the street being improved.

In Bridlemile SW Hamilton and SW Shattuck are its two collector streets.

Read why Hamilton is so critical to pedestrian, bicycle, and auto flow in and across Bridlemile. Base map from Google maps, graphic by Victor von Salza.

Last year, Sam Adams asked neighborhood associations to suggest which of their neighborhood collector streets could most benefit from sidewalks or other pedestrian improvements. And after some discussion those attending the January 2007 BNA meeting voted to designate SW Shattuck from Beaverton Hillsdale Hwy to SW Hamilton, and SW Hamilton from SW 60th Place to SW 42nd, as the portions of Bridlemile's collector streets that are most in need of pedestrian improvements.

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Urban Trails page. To be edited.

Un-Paved [Non-Multi-Modal] Trail Projects List

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Hamilton is key to traveling across and in Bridlemile.

On November 16th, 2007 The BNA Halo LID core team, Erica Rooney (the Otak project manager), and Amanda Ownings Otak Civil Engineer walked both sides of SW Hamilton from SW 60th to SW39th to identify challenges, opportunities, solutions and alternatives for each section of the street. Below are a few of the many challenges, followed by one or two possible alternative pathway designs (from Table D-1.pdf, 284KB PDOT Alternative Pathway Concepts) that might be used.

These alternative pathway designs are meant to show what might be possible, and different solutions can be applied along the different sections of SW Hamilton depending on topography and other factors. The street widith between the yellow center line and the white fogline is 10', street right of way along Hamilton varies greatly from just a few feet to 15-20' outside of the white fog line. So the notes below each photo are just meant to be illustrative discussions of the types of challenges and issues with some of the improvements that might be used if there is sufficient right of way to accommodate them, neither are complete... how would you solve or balance them? Add your own solutions here (see bottom of page for how).

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For more than 40 years we have been promised a traffic signal at this intersection. Enough is enough. Only organized grassroots citizen activism is likely to bring enough pressure on our public officials to improve the situation at this intersection. Here’s a plan for action.

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