Portland Monday metro traffic: Paving work slows commuters on Skyline, Killingsworth
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Skyline Boulevard and Killingsworth Street will have detours through Friday for paving projects. File photo. Sarah Cassi | For lehighvalleylive.com
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Two popular travel routes will experience delays beginning early Monday as part of spring paving.
The Portland Bureau of Transportation will be paving Northwest Skyline Boulevard from Hawkins to Cornell Road and North Killingsworth Street at its intersection with Concord Avenue.
The Skyline project will pave about .5 miles of roadway and will last about five days. The road will be closed from Northwest Hawkins Boulevard to Cornell Road. Work hours are 6:30 a.m.-4 p.m. through Friday, April 30. During construction, travelers will be detoured to Northwest Thompson Road. Flaggers and road signs will help direct traffic.
Portland lowers 122nd Avenue speed limit to 30 MPH April 21 2021
The move is intended to reduce crashes on the five-lane road, according to the Portland Bureau of Transportation.
Portland has given a haircut to the speed limit on 122nd Avenue.
Crews with the Portland Bureau of Transportation posted new 30 MPH speed limit signs along a 5.5 mile stretch of the five-lane roadway on Wednesday, April 21 a five mile reduction from the previous speed limit. 122nd Avenue is a really key north-south corridor in East Portland. People use it every day, PBOT spokesman Dylan Rivera told AM Extra, a morning show produced by Pamplin Media news partner KOIN 6 News. It also happens to be one of the High Crash Corridors in our city. Only 8% of our streets are. but they account for most of our traffic deaths.
The Portlnd Business Alliance hears about problems and solutions for downtown at its monthly forum.
Downtown Portland and its surrounding neighborhoods are facing serious problems, but they are not as bad as the national news media makes them sound and they not insurmountable although it will take full community response to overcome them.
That was the consensus of a diverse panel of business owners and managers who spoke at a remote Portland Business Alliance forum on Wednesday, April 21. Titled Re-Activating Portland s Urban Core, it focused on how to overcome the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that closed offices and increased homelessness, and the months-long series of protests that frequently ended with violence.
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