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The City of Portland paid $119,000 per month for SoloPower's default on a loan the City guaranteed under Mayor Sam Adams in 2011. The payments continued until October, 2020. [42] The money is taken out of Portland's Bureau of Transportation. [43] [44] The Bureau of Transportation pays because parking-meter revenue was used as guaranty. [45]
Located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood, [1] the tunnels pass through a hillside locally known as Vista Ridge which is a half mile (1 km) west of downtown Portland. Sunset Highway , also known as U.S. Route 26 , is carried through the tunnels, three lanes in each direction.
In 2023, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) announced plans to close 181 pedestrian crossings, including 53 in the Portland metropolitan area, citing safety concerns. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] ODOT has worked to install pedestrian-activated beacons throughout the metropolitan area, including along Southeast Powell Boulevard, Southwest ...
Like transportation in the rest of the United States, the primary mode of local transportation in Portland, Oregon is the automobile. Metro , the metropolitan area's regional government, has a regional master plan in which transit-oriented development plays a major role. [ 1 ]
Portland officials also asked state authorities to forgive missed mortgage and rent payments. [32] In late April, Chloe Eudaly and the Portland Bureau of Transportation announced plans to shut down 100 miles of streets to automobile traffic to encourage social distancing for bicyclists and pedestrians. [33]
OR 53 is a narrow, winding roadway for most of its length, and primarily serves local and recreational traffic. Occasionally, however, closures of US 101 to the west (in particular, in or around the Arch Cape Tunnel, an area very prone to mudslides) will result in heavy commercial use of this roadway, as OR 53 and US 101 are the only viable ...
Interstate 405 (I-405), also known as the Stadium Freeway No. 61, [3] is a short north–south Interstate Highway in Portland, Oregon.It forms a loop that travels around the west side of Downtown Portland, between two junctions with I-5 on the Willamette River near the Marquam Bridge to the south and Fremont Bridge to the north.
By 1968, the Portland Bureau of Planning recommended the elimination of Harbor Drive, in order to expand the city's park system and give the public access to the waterfront. [20] Interstate 5 was completed in 1964 on the east bank of the river, and I-405 was completed on the west side in 1969.