Oregon’s top transportation decisionmakers on Thursday unanimously approved a plan to spend $3 million on 82nd Avenue this year to improve pedestrian crossings at several sections on the five-lane urban highway as soon as possible. They are also lowering the speed limit on the busy street on its entire route inside Portland city limits. The state expects to begin installing new speed limit .
TV Highway reopens after early morning deadly pedestrian crash
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Tualatin Valley Highway has reopened after being closed off between Southwest 185th Avenue and Southwest 92nd Avenue for several hours Wednesday morning.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office said there was a fatal crash between a car and a pedestrian shortly before 3 a.m. Wednesday, but officials have not released any additional information about the fatality.
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‘How many more people have to die?’ 82nd Avenue claimed 2 more lives in April By Andrew Theen, oregonlive.com
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3 Photos Rep. Khanh Pham being sworn in as a state legislator in January. Pham said the safety issues on 82nd Avenue were a major reason she ran for office. (The Oregonian) Photo Gallery
PORTLAND Two men were struck and killed while walking across the same stretch of Northeast 82nd Avenue in April, a sobering reminder that the east Portland arterial remains one of the most dangerous roads in the Portland metro area.
Fatal crashes, regardless of whether those killed by drivers were walking, in a vehicle or riding a bike, are nothing new on the five-lane state highway that carves through some of the most racially diverse neighborhoods in the city and state and on into Clackamas County. But in the past two years, each marking the deadliest in Portland history since 1996, no one died on 82nd Avenue. In the decade preceding, 16 people w
‘How many more people have to die?’ 82nd Avenue claimed 2 more lives in April
Updated May 02, 2021;
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Two men were struck and killed while walking across the same stretch of Northeast 82nd Avenue in April, a sobering reminder that the east Portland arterial remains one of the most dangerous roads in the Portland metro area.
Fatal crashes, regardless of whether those killed by drivers were walking, in a vehicle or riding a bike, are nothing new on the five-lane state highway that carves through some of the most racially diverse neighborhoods in the city and state and on into Clackamas County. But in the past two years, each marking the deadliest in Portland history since 1996, no one died on 82nd Avenue. In the decade preceding, 16 people were killed along its roughly seven miles inside Portland city limits.