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PBOT is currently at a 60% Design Status, we are reviewing the design internally to ensure all safety elements are included with the final project. We are expecting the 90% Design Milestone to be complete in June 2024. porous concrete driveway
Bike/pedestrian connectivity along the SW 45th. Ave. corridor between SW Vermont St. and SW Cameron Rd. concerns the neighborhood. A recently completed capital project had installed continuous bicycle lanes and southside sidewalk east of the SW 45th Ave (another neighborhood collector with a signalized intersection at SW Vermont St). However, the southside sidewalk extended only another two blocks west to SW Idaho Dr, and bike lanes terminated at SW 45th Ave. Neighborhood advocates strongly desire an improved bike/pedestrian connection to an existing neighborhood greenway facility which extends northward from SW Vermont St at SW 50th Ave and southward from SW Vermont St at SW 52nd Ave. The challenge for the project team is to develop a design concept that fulfills the desires of the neighborhood with the limited funding available.
A live presentation and Q&A session took place on Zoom the evening of Thursday, June 10th. You can watch the video here.
A separate, self-guided open house featuring an interactive map covering the construction schedule and project details is available here:
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This project will improve safety and mobility for all modes of travel while improving stormwater management, protecting water quality in local streams, and updating water supply infrastructure to meet modern demands. Portland’s Bureau of Transportation, Bureau of Environmental Services, and Water Bureau are working on the project together to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance service delivery to the Portland community.
The project will add a continuous sidewalk and protected bike lane on the east side of SW 45th Ave., and a multi-use path on the East side of the street also. The project will collect and convey stormwater runoff through inlets and pipes to four new stormwater treatment and detention basins located nearby.
Providing sidewalks and bike lanes on this segment of SW Capitol Highway has been a community priority for nearly 30 years. This segment, between SW Garden Home Road and SW Taylors Ferry Road, hosts over 8,000 vehicles per day, is served by TriMet’s #44 bus line, and currently has no sidewalks, bike lanes, pedestrian crossings or standard stormwater facilities.
The city’s project development process for this corridor began with the Capitol Highway Plan in 1996 and continued with the SW Capitol Highway Plan Refinement Report in 2011 and the Capitol Highway Corridor Stormwater Concept Design in 2016. In each of these cases, the city faced challenges in developing a buildable project with limited funding and challenging physical constraints.
In 2016 and 2017 sufficient funding came together from the voter-approved "Fixing Our Streets" ten-cent gas tax, development charges, Environmental Services, Water Bureau, and the State of Oregon, allowing the project to advance. The project team worked closely with the community from 2016 through 2020 to refine the design and discuss property and neighborhood impacts and benefits.
This joint PBOT-BES-PWB project is funded through the Fixing Our Streets city gas tax, Transportation System Development Charges, Oregon Lottery-backed bonds authorized by the 2017 State Legislature, Bureau of Environmental Services funds, and Water Bureau funds. Fixing Our Streets is contributing roughly $6.6 million of the total project budget of $27.5 million, making this the largest project funded by the Fixing Our Streets program. The construction contract value is approximately $14 million, with remaining funds attributed to planning, design engineering, right-of-way acquisition, project management, and construction management and inspection.
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