If you ever wonder if the City is just responding to complaints, look no further than the great folks at PDOT, including traffic safety stars Greg Raisman and Mark Lear.
In the recent effort to figure out how to spend one-time funds, the City produced maps that identify where most crashes happen (pedestrian, motor vehicle, bikes). Here’s my favorite map, that tells you a lot about where the City is likely to invest: Traffic Safety Needs map.
Among the top priorities that received funding: bike boulevards to bypass dangerous Foster Rd, a SW Vermont bike boulevard (from Terwilliger to Capitol) and SE 26/28 from Taggart to Salmon.
Other intersection safety projects for bikes include NW 23rd and Johnson, NW 21st and Johnson, NW 21st and Flanders, NW 16th and Everett, SW Terwilliger and 6th, SE Belmont and 42nd, NE 148th from Airport Way to I-84, and widening the westbound Hawthorne Bridge bicycle lane.
Thanks in part to citizens who spoke up when we asked you to, these projects have received $150,000 in initial funding (through June 07), with hopes for $300,000 in more funding in the City Fiscal Year 07-08.
