12 • The Southwest Portland Post
NEWS
November 2008
City to spend $500,000 engineering
Garden Home segment of
Capitol Highway
PeDeSTRIANS & BICYCLeS
By Don Snedecor
The Southwest Portland Post
At the October meeting of the
Multnomah Neighborhood Associa-
tion, Kathryn Levine, project manager
with the Portland Offi ce of Transpor-
tation, gave an update on the status
of the Capitol Highway Plan project’s
“Garden Home” segment.
The City of Portland received a grant
of about $500,000 to do preliminary en-
gineering on the Garden Home segment
from Garden Home Road to Taylor’s
Ferry Road. The 1996 plan calls for bike
lanes and sidewalks on both sides of
Capitol Highway.
According to Levine the MTIP funds
have for the project still have to be
procured from the Oregon Department
of Transportation. Levine said she ex-
pected the city to have the funds avail-
able for engineering sometime after the
fi rst of January.
The next step will be for a technical
team including city engineers, design-
ers, and a consultant on stormwater de-
sign to begin meeting with a rekindled
citizen’s advisory committee on some
of the fundamental design questions
of the project.
“Will the community want to stick to
the 12-foot wide sidewalk corridors are
will they want them to be narrower and
have less impact on trees and surround-
ing landscape,” said Levine. “Will they
Ash Creek Woods
want it sloping or will there be retaining
walls?”
Levine said the city would begin
recruiting volunteers from the com-
munity for the CAC sometime early
next year.
Levine said that how the project deals
with stormwater will be a major factor,
just as it was for the Texas Street (at
Capitol Highway) local improvement
district. “Whether it is with swales or
some other kind of fi lters, I think how
we treat the stormwater before it enters
the system is an important question that
has to be resolved.”
Levine said that the project will
include six months of revisiting the
streetscape plan and doing the engi-
neering. No construction dollars have
been committed so far. As far as a time-
line for the project, design is expected
to be completed during 2009-2010,
with construction possibly sometime
in 2011.
First segment of Red Electric Trail
project would cost $2 million
The City of Portland has applied
for a $2 million MTIP grant to pay
for one small section of the proposed
Red Electric Trail. When completed
the entire trail would run from the
Multnomah
The Red Electric Trail segment marked from 30th Avenue to Vermont Street.
Willamette River to Alpenrose Dairy
where it would connect with the Fanno
Creek Trail.
According to Portland Parks and
Recreation, the Red Electric Trail project
would provide pedestrian and bicycle
improvements in the Hillsdale town
center area of Southwest Portland.
The western segment is an on-street
bike boulevard with sidewalks on
Bertha Boulevard from 30th Avenue
to the Bertha and Beaverton-Hillsdale
Highway intersection.
This segment would have mecha-
nisms to calm traffi c like curb exten-
sions at 30th Avenue, directional signs
and possibly adding width to existing
pavement to make a bicycle boule-
vard.
The middle segment would be an off-
street trail from the intersection of Ber-
tha Boulevard and Beaverton-Hillsdale
Highway to Capitol Highway.
The eastern segment would either be
a signed route along existing Nebraska
Street, 19th Avenue, and Idaho Street or
preferably a widening of an existing off-
street sidewalk between Vermont and
Nebraska streets that parallels Bertha
Boulevard.
According to Don Baack, chair of
the Southwest Trails Committee, this
section is important for bicycles and pe-
destrians because access to Beaverton-
Hillsdale Highway is so dangerous.
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Multnomah Village
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This large home has it all! Kitchen w/
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Multnomah Village
Hillsdale’s best Rowhouse. Large slate
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