2 • The Southwest Portland Post
EDITORIAL
March 2017
Improving our Southwest pedestrian environment means budgeting funds, identifying trails
OPEN FORUM
By Glenn Bridger and Don Baack
Pedestrian connectivity is the key
to allowing residents to move about
our community.
SWTrails is in the process of
working with the city of Portland to
identify key pedestrian connections
around all of Southwest Portland.
We a r e w o r k i n g w i t h
n e i g h b o rh o o d a s s o c i a t i o n s t o
identify existing rights of way,
many heavily used, that could be
improved to be better pedestrian or
pedestrian and bicycle trails.
Unimproved existing rights of
way are promises of connections
that have never been fulfilled.
They are presently a no-man’s
land, open for public access, but in
many cases not easily traversable by
kids headed for school or residents
wanting to walk for exercise.
There have been questions of
liability for adjacent owners when
these public lands are used.
Recent state legislation has taken
aim at the liability issue when trails
are improved or maintained by a
non-profit organization such as
SWTrails.
To bring the relief intended by the
legislation regarding trail use, City
Council approval of that use must
be provided.
SWTrails is working with the
city of Portland as it begins a
project called SWIM (Southwest In
Motion), a funded effort to identify,
price out, and set general priorities
within categories of all the active
transportation projects across
Southwest Portland.
The SWTrails' effort is to identify
the hundreds of existing trail
connections, most of which are
already in use by our Southwest
residents, put them on a map and/
or a list, obtain public comment and
then get the Portland City Council
to approve the list and map.
This action will formalize more
of these trails we rely upon as an
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Longtime zoo resident Packy the
elephant will be missed by many
Just heard that Portland’s beloved
elephant, Packy, has died. I first saw
him when he was just a little guy. He
was on a chain and tethered outside
Lynches Market in Hillsdale.
I was with my Dad who was
getting gas at the Mobil station.
There must have been some kind
of a festival or fair and Packy was
the feature.
Our family owns a very large red
tooth brush that was given to Packy
during National Dental Health
week. It was being discarded and
was retrieved and treasured all these
years.
Some time back, we let the zoo
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