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EDITORIAL
The Southwest Portland Post
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Portland, OR 97206
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When will other Southwest
streets get upgraded like
Maplewood Road?
In 2013, two bureaus in Portland
worked together to make Maplewood
Road more walkable, from the cor-
ner of 45th Avenue and Multnomah
Boulevard towards 51st Avenue near
Maplewood School.
I’ve heard the same thing will be
done on Hamilton Street which con-
nects Scholls Ferry Road to Dosch
Road.
Are you aware of the $7.3 million
dollar Fanno Creek bridge construc-
tion on Oleson Road just south of
“Crash Corner” by Parr Lumber in
Raleigh Hills?
A ppro x i m a te l y 11 ,0 0 0 f reig h t
trucks, school buses, cars use that
bridge every day. Many people are
now speeding on roads in south-
west Portland that have not been
upgraded.
I do want to make it known that I’m
very excited about the new bridge.
An eight-unit apartment was built on
the banks of Fanno Creek, bulldozed
earlier this year and that half-acre will
be given to nature.
Sixteen storm filter vaults will be
installed to clean storm water runoff,
and it sends a message to county of-
ficials and developers to never again
construct buildings on the banks of
creeks.
There will soon be a temporary
pedestrian bridge over Fanno Creek.
Carter & Company is the contrac-
tor. They also built the Union Street
Bridge in Salem (basically, a rails-to-
trails pedestrian and bike bridge over
the Willamette River) and also helped
with the Banks-Vernonia State Trail
which was a rails-to-trails project.
[As a result of the temporary clo-
sure] many drivers are doing highly
illegal things and also driving very
fast on the nearby southwest Portland
roads.
Kyle Chisek, from the Portland
Bureau of Transportation, told me
this summer that PBOT has asked the
Oregon Department of Transportation
to lower the speed limit on Vermont
Street, from 30th Avenue to the county
line from 35 miles per hour.
The new limit might become 30
mph. Somehow, Cameron Road is
35 mph which connects from 45th
Avenue to Shattuck Road.
I would like to see Shattuck Road,
the southern stretch from the Beaver-
ton-Hillsdale Highway to Vermont
Street, receive the same, lower-cost
(versus sidewalk and bike lane) up-
grade that Maplewood Road got in
2013.
Vermont Street, from Southwest
45th Ave to 65th Ave, needs the
same upgrade as Maplewood Road
received. Put it on the south part of
Vermont. Cameron Street also needs
that upgrade along with a lower
speed limit to 25 mph.
September 2014
Kudos to the volunteers who
attempted to cleanup this
triangle of land
Regarding, “Trash, overgrowth and
camping rampant in Multnomah Village
park,” letter by Marsha Overton, editorial
response by Don Snedecor, photo by Erik
Vidstrand, The Post, August 2014.
I was moved to stop and walk
[through Multnomah Village Park] after
reading The Post article and anyone can
see what a task this is. It appears that
at some point quite a bit of landscaping
was attempted. Landscape cloth is vis-
ible in several places, and a number of
plants have been planted.
But the job of maintaining this space
as a garden or park space seems far too
big for a group of volunteers. Surely
Rick Kappler
Southwest Portland
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this would take one or two people an
hour or two per week for most of the
year, and more than that during the
peak seasons. Is there no way to get
the city to take responsibility?
I can hear the discussion now. This
is Portland Bureau of Transportation prop-
erty, and we don’t maintain parks. PBOT
might need this right-of-way in the future,
so we can’t give it to the Park Bureau. On
and on and back and forth.
What if we as citizens raise our voices
and ask that this kind of maintenance be
included in the proposed transportation
tax? Yes, the needs are already huge
and unfunded, but somehow other
cities I’ve visited manage to maintain
small green-spaces.
Jeremy Grand
Southwest Coronado Street