We have big squishy wheels Mark Scott. We can ride over rocks, sticks, cracks, bumbs, cobble, small children, birds and rodents. Your Permeable pavers sounds like fun to early grab over, maybe they could put a speed bump in too for a bit of extra air time. Tell you what, how about a bank on the edge of the road to pump off as well and we could turn the whole road into a full blown skatepark! New challenges on a road are always welcome. A cattle grid at the bottom could be awesome too, they make Norwegian hills really special, could be a bit of international influence in Portland!

countering a senseless ban with state statistics doesn't clarify this very much. just hope they're contributing a lot to society in other ways, since if they lack health insurance and hit a parked car they'll soon be drawing from the county $ pool in a big way.

The reality is that banning skateboarding will only make criminals out of recreationalist. Like Commander Crebs mentioned it is hard enough to enforce the general traffic laws as is. Making it illegal will only further justify an outlaw attitude towards the rest of rules on the hill. Meaning the skaters will be less motivated to obey any of the traffic laws. The skate community is actually already working with the city to make skateboarding on Fairview safer, and while the change may not be immediate, we are already seeing more of the skateboarders obeying the traffic laws everyday.