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Many Portlanders were skeptical in October 2021 to learn of Portland City Council's proposal to quell gun violence in Southeast Portland's Mt. Scott-Arleta neighborhood with the use of plastic traffic barrels meant to slow traffic. Yet, three months of crime data and anecdotal evidence collected after the program began shows tentative success in the doubted plan. According to data collected by the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), the number of verified shootings in the neighborhood dropped.
What once was the site of car crashes, pedestrian threats, and drive-by shootings in Southeast Portland’s Mt. Scott-Arleta neighborhood is now a rainbow-striped community space. The new extended Arleta Triangle, a public plaza located in the former right-turn lane that allowed cars to bypass the light at SE 72nd Avenue and SE Woodstock Boulevard, officially opened to the public Thursday with a celebratory block party. The Arleta Triangle, formerly a small traffic island with trees.
PORTLAND, Oregon Michelle Farris never expected to become homeless, but here she was, sifting through garbage and towering piles of debris accumulated along a roadway on the outskirts of Northeast Portland.