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$17 million from Metro flows into PBOT for 4 key initiatives

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Assistance is on the way in which for this part of NE 122nd Ave.
(Photograph: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland)

The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) will settle for almost $17 million in undertaking funding from Metro this week that shall be unfold round 4 main initiatives.

The cash comes from federal grants distributed by Metro’s 2022-2024 Regional Versatile Funds Allocation course of. These funds, which can be found from the federal authorities and distributed by Metro each three years, are coveted by transportation businesses as a result of they’ve broad discretion on how they are often spent.

PBOT utilized for eight initiatives in 2019 and is poised to obtain funding for 4 of them at Metropolis Council this Wednesday. Each has a particular objective to enhance circumstances for biking, strolling, and taking transit.

Check out the 4 initiatives beneath. And bear in mind, these grants received’t cowl the whole lot of any of the initiatives, in order that they’ll must be supplemented with PBOT funding that may come from locations just like the Transportation System Improvement Prices (SDCs) and Fixing Our Streets funds.

NE 122nd Ave Security & Entry: Beech St – Wasco St

(Supply: PBOT)

Whole undertaking value: $6,491,000
Grant worth: $4,543,700

The undertaking is meant to enhance security and accessibility alongside NE 122nd Avenue between NE Beech Road and NE Wasco Road by establishing new enhanced and marked crossings on NE 122nd Ave, reconstructing curb ramps and including lighting at intersections alongside the hall.

Stark & Washington Security: SE 92nd Ave – SE 109th Ave

Whole undertaking value: $12,273,629
Grant worth: $5,332,000

This undertaking is meant to remodel this space, which is at present on the excessive crash community, right into a hub for individuals strolling, biking and taking transit in East Portland. Security enhancements will embrace protected bike and bus lanes, transit islands and enhanced crossings.

NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Security & Entry to Transit

New crossing medians at Mason.

Southern half.

Whole undertaking value: $4,723,000
Grant worth: $2,623,000

This undertaking will embrace pedestrian crossing enhancements on NE Martin Luther King Boulevard at places between Prepare dinner and Highland Streets and sign modifications on the intersections at NE Fremont Road and NE Killingsworth Road so as to add protected left flip phases.

NE MLK Jr Blvd is a hub for Portland’s Black group and this undertaking was developed in partnership with the Soul District Enterprise Affiliation. PBOT is submitting section 2 of this undertaking, which is able to prolong it from Fremont to Lombard Streets, to be funded within the 2025-2027 RFFA cycle.

(PBOT undertaking web page for Section 1 of this undertaking.)

N Willamette Blvd Energetic Transportation Hall

Whole undertaking value: $6,106,000
Grant worth: $4,456,000

This undertaking will improve present bike lanes alongside Willamette Boulevard from Rosa Parks Strategy to No Ida Avenue and increasing bike lanes from Ida Avenue to Richmond Avenue and add intersection enhancements for pedestrian security and transit entry.

As we wrote final 12 months, this undertaking will present an important low-stress bikeway connection from St. Johns to the remainder of the town, one thing that has been lacking as Willamette Blvd’s present bike lane has harmful gaps.

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PBOT Interim Communications Director Hannah Schafer says the initiatives nonetheless want some public outreach and design engineering and development is ready for 2025.