6 • The Southwest Portland Post
NEWS
May 2017
Multnomah neighborhood activist works to get stop sign installed
Lorrie Biggs and her family
have been living in Multnomah
Village for almost three years now.
Her home lies at the corner of a
somewhat busy intersection.
Biggs has had some near-miss
collisions, as have other neighbors,
but more importantly, she has
witnessed motorists speeding over
40 miles per hour.
The intersection, at Southwest
Moss Street and 28th Avenue,
is at the crown of a blind hill.
Some of the corner homes have
overgrown shrubbery and fences.
Biggs trimmed back their own
bushes last summer.
“It is difficult to see anyway and
it makes it especially dangerous
when people are flying by,” Biggs
said.
“The speed limit in residential
n e i g h b o rh o o d s i s 2 5 u n l e s s
posted,” said John Biggs, her
husband.
In September 2016, she had seen
enough. She picked up the phone
and called Portland Bureau of
Transportation.
“Something had to be done,”
Lorrie said. “I kept calling them,
and bugging them.”
She spoke with her neighbor,
Megan Schneider, and several
others. Biggs had orchestrated
a stop sign installation over by
Lewis and Clark College, where
the couple used to live.
“It doesn’t help that there is
an app for shortcuts through
communities,” Schneider said.
“Trying to beat the traffic on
Multnomah Boulevard? No
problem, the app will help you
navigate a shortcut to beat the
congestion or to save time.”
The neighbors have seen
increased traffic lately.
Eventually, the city said they
would conduct a traffic survey.
City staff arrived the first day of
spring break. Biggs said the city
would send their results in eight to
10 weeks but within a few weeks,
the stop signs were in place.
According to the transportation
bureau, stop signs are installed
at intersections where motorists
cannot safely apply the right-
of-way rule or when crashes
sometimes occur as a result.
By Erik Vidstrand
The Southwest Portland Post
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his staff, to the next neighborhood
meeting. Saltzman is head of the
transportation bureau.
It was also suggested to invite
newly elected City Commissioner
Chloe Eudaly, or staff, as well to
the next meeting regarding housing
issues. Eudaly is head of the housing
bureau.
A motion was passed that the land
use committee investigate and find a
solution to the destruction of the road
and that it be at least reverted to a
pre-construction condition.
An amendment was added to
state, “To a minimum of city street
standards of a paved, usable street.”
A subcommittee was asked to
work on this and report back to the
neighborhood association.
City traffic
e n g i n e e r s
consider
a
number of street
characteristics
when determining
e f f e c t i v e
placement of
a stop sign as a
traffic control
device.
A c c o rd i n g t o
the transportation
bureau’s website,
“Stop signs may
often seem like
a good solution
to neighborhood
speeding, but
traffic studies and
experience show
that using stop
signs to control
speeding doesn’t
necessarily
work.”
A restricted
view is a main
reason a stop sign
is installed.
“ W h e t h e r i t John Biggs poses with daughter Abigal, son Adam, wife Lorrie,
w a s b e c a u s e and neighbor Hudson Schneider at their new stop sign. Lorrie
o f f o l i a g e o r has been pressing the city for months to help improve the safety
speed or both, it of the intersection. (Post photo by Erik Vidstrand)
doesn’t matter,”
Lorrie said. “This intersection will
sign? Call the City of Portland
be safer because of it.”
Bureau of Transportation at 503-
How does one request a stop
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