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The railroad crossings in Portland’s Central Eastside are a recurrent irritation for the people who live, work or commute through the area.

Anyone who frequents inner southeast Portland is familiar with the persistent—yet unpredictable—freight train bottlenecks near railroad crossings in the area. Union Pacific freight trains rolling into town via the Brooklyn Intermodal Rail Yard cause such notable logjams in Portland's Central Eastside that more than 1,500 people signed a Change.org petition asking the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) to do something about it. Now, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the U.S. D...

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There remained “widespread closures” on city roads near the fire.

Firefighters searched the building's four floors and a spokesperson said it appeared no one had been left behind.

Restaurants will have to purchase permits for the privilege of using street space for seating areas, an option that had been free during the pandemic.

The 16-block zone will be off limits to traditional, gas-powered delivery vehicles. Passenger vehicles wouldn't be affected. Truck drivers are concerned. 


Portland news: Officials plan to announce a new pilot project that would restrict a 16-block area of downtown to only zero-emissions delivery vehicles

Portland property owners have been growing increasingly creative when it comes to blocking homeless campers from resting on the sidewalks adjacent to their properties. From giant concrete planters to piles of boulders to turning galvanized livestock troughs into sidewalk gardens. But, just when you think the city's passive NIMBYs have run out of ideas—allow me to introduce perhaps the most Portland form of "hostile architecture": bike racks. On Wednesday, a reader shared with...

Phil Trammell has been named the new executive director of the Nonprofit Resource Center in Chattanooga.