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- Printable Version - April 16, 2008
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Keep Portland Moving began in 1996 as a multi-agency effort to coordinate large public projects to reduce traffic impacts. Today it includes a 3-year campaign by the Portland Office of Transportation to help promote a vibrant, accessible downtown Portland by minimizing the combined construction impacts of the Portland Mall project and private development in the downtown core in 2007 through 2009.
Keep Portland Moving is responsible for a wide range of different activities, some on-going programs and some special projects. Here are a few of the things we're doing to try to keep you moving:
- We coordinate the work of private contractors and utilities with public projects that are underway, through the Central Business District program
- We adjust the downtown traffic signals so the street network can work even when parts of it are closed to traffic
- We help downtown workers make healthy, economical travel choices by offering information through SmartTrips Downtown
- We publish a weekly look ahead of likely construction impacts to downtown traffic and keep the website updated with information minute by minute
- We helped TriMet move the buses off the Portland Mall to 3rd and 4th avenues, Jefferson and Columbia, before construction started on the mall
- We installed several web cams around downtown to give you a real-time peek at traffic
- We installed the Downtown Traffic Hotline (503-865-MOVE) and put up signs to let you know about it, so anyone can get real-time information or let us know about traffic problems downtown
- We added a real-time sign at the Morrison Bridge that tells visitors to downtown how many parking spaces are open at three SmartPark garages, to help reduce drivers circling to look for parking
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Your plan for SW Sixth Avenue after the new street car is in operation won't work. The plan allows drivers on Sixth to turn right (east) at only one street - SW Harrison. Harrison is a narrow two way street with lots of driveways where cars have to wait to turn left and cross traffic. It also is stopped at SW 4th or 4th for the existing trolley crossing, and is often backed up while cars wait to turn left on SW 4th.
All the traffic from Council Crest (down SW Broadway Drive), OHSU (down Terwilliger), and off of I-405 South (Sixth St. exit) is funnelled on to SW Sixth to go downtown. Many of these cars want to go either east of Sixth (east toward the river) or over the bridges to SE Portland (Morrison, Hawthorne) or down SW Market to get on I-5 South. You are trying to funnel ALL this traffic to SW Harrison, which again is a narrow 2-way street.
You should ALSO allow cars to turn right (east) on SW Market, which is one-way and four lanes wide (and connects to I-5 South).