East Portland boosters and transportation advocates celebrated when 82nd Avenue was transferred to the city of Portland last year. The move enabled work to begin on a plan to turn the major arterial into a "civic corridor" complete with improved transit service, active transportation access, housing development, and landscaping. The idea? Fix longstanding safety issues while rebalancing long-standing equity gaps that have left east Portlanders with less shade, hotter summers, and less access to frequent,.
A year after it was transferred from the state to the City of Portland, 82nd Avenue is getting major upgrades, but the Portland Bureau of Transportation is also looking to get the input of the community who lives along the corridor.
Portlander Samuel Hambrick never learned to drive because he believed cars were too dangerous. "He was afraid he could hurt someone," his mother, Susan Hambrick told the Mercury. In September 2021, Samuel was walking along Highway 30 in Northwest Portland in the early morning when he was hit and killed by a person driving a car. The highway doesn’t have sidewalks or a large shoulder, so Samuel—a transit-dependent pedestrian—was walking on the side of the.
Chief Chuck Lovell announced that he is bringing back the traffic detail. Officers will be in high-crash areas of the city, looking for dangerous driving behaviors.