As the Oregonian pointed out Monday evening, the city’s released a new interactive map containing all potential projects that might make the cut as part of the seemingly never-ending process of creating a new Comprehensive Plan.
The map has tabs for transportation, zoning and infrastructure projects put forth by various city bureaus, and it’d be pointless trying to summarize them—or even using the map to try and get a good enough handle on them all that you could summarize. But click around, and you’ll find plenty of interesting possibilities.
For instance:
Would the city really pull the trigger—in the next 20 years—on new car-free bridges over I-84? The city’s bike lobby has been hoping so for a while now.
Less expensive and just as hotly coveted: The first winding segment of a multimodal trail along the railroad tracks of Sullivan’s Gulch that could give cyclists, pedestriants, and Razor scooterers a breezy east-west commute.
Also, here are the initial outer limits PBOT has apparently designated for Portland’s long awaited, twice-delayed bikeshare system:
We’ve always known the first phase of the system—if/when it arrives—would be focused on the city’s relatively prosperous center, with potential subsequent expansions moving share-bikes closer to populations that might need them more (though those areas aren’t necessarily magnets for the tourists that can make or break a bike share system). I’m not sure i’d seen the system so starkly limned, though. It’s clear there’s demand for bike share outside those boundaries.
Anyway, have at it. See what’s maybe coming to your neighborhood. Go NIMBY.
I love the idea of a Sullivans Gulch multi-purpose trail. Nothing screams “set up a homeless camp here!” like an easily accessible canyon near the central city alongside a railroad track. Here are some possible names for the trail:
Tent Canyon
Hooverville 2: Bigger, Better, Gulchier
Night Terrors
Trench Welfare
I guess I don’t really understand. Is this “sky’s the limit” kind of stuff, or is it reality based?
I wonder if the office where the 26 year old “planners” who put this together is like totally one of workplaces where you can ride your longboard down the hallways n stuff. That would be so awesome!
over 12 bridges downtown Portland lets only replace or add one of the two between Portland and Vancouver. lets keep Portland in the top 10 worst city’s with traffic.
Move away from fantasy land and look at reality. They want a street tax paid for by residents and businesses because the city isn’t bringing in enough to pay for the infrastructure we have. I’m not going to give up my car and thousands upon thousands of Portland wont give up their cars. Put the money where it was intended to go. The streets for cars and make the bikers pay for the “Want’s” they’re demanding. There is a life outside the Pearl and if you want it to proper, you must have streets cars will drive on.
Can we scrap all this bullshit and just focus on what’s really important: a West-bound entrance/exit ramp for NE 122nd!!!???