April 07 2015

Shared Use Path

Biking safely to this portion of the multi-use path from the west side of I-205 is problematic. Both walking and biking from there are slow, unsafe, and unpleasant. There is potentially a large demand for active transportation between the Gateway area and Montavilla Park and vicinity. Currently the demand is limited largely by the poor crossing facilities at Glisan. People who will be living in new low-income housing at 90th and Glisan and other new and proposed residential housing east of I-205 will want to be able to walk and bike easily and safely to places like Montavilla Park and Community Center including the new popular Futsal court. Please put a bike-ped overcrossing in the long-term plans for this area. I have created this 3-D "Sketchup" drawing of how this can be done with one end located about where this marker is placed and the other end at the dead-end of Oregon Street where it meets the freeway berm.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzXQ1XM0s0ZCLXNEVDV0MTN0czg/view?usp=sharing

It is also possible to add bike lanes for at least a short distance on Glisan by altering the striping on and near the overcrossing. Please work with PBOT on planning for and designing both short-term and long-term improvements for walking and biking over I-84 here.

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