Our friends at SWTrails ask you to help prioritize some safety projects:
More money might be headed to Southwest Portland to make it safer to walk and bike.
Where would you spend it?
The Portland City Council recently passed the Sidewalk Improvement and Pavement Program (SIPP), which would direct $200M toward safety improvements in areas of town which lack sidewalks—namely, east and southwest Portland.
In choosing projects to build, the Portland Bureau of Transportation will most likely work from their 2019 Southwest in Motion (SWIM) list. But the SWIM project list was never prioritized, and SWTrails thought that folks might want the city to know which projects are most important to them.
So we’ve built an interactive project map. Click on the projects that matter the most to you, and rate them with three, two or one stars. You can select as many (or as few) projects as you would like. We also have a second survey of proposed crosswalks (see the big red button up top).
We will compile the data, do some simple analysis and give the results to the Portland Bureau of Transportation and our District 4 Councilors. If a lot of people participate, the survey is more likely to have an effect on decision-making.
Helping out
That’s why I’m hoping you can pass this survey on to your community—the mushroom effect. I recommend taking the survey yourself, and seeing which projects might be of the biggest interest to your crowd. Then go ahead, email your lists and give the folks a little guidance. Borrow whatever text you like from our emails and surveys.
Survey Tips
We aren’t telling you what makes a project important, we all have different criteria. For some, it might a dangerous spot on your daily walk, others are thinking about network connectivity. You do you. Think of three stars as super-important; two as very important; and one as important.
Be sure to click the “submit” button after each project.
For example, I chose five projects which are important to me. I gave two of them three stars, two of them two stars, and one project got one star. I clicked the submit button five times.
Good luck, and have fun! And thank you so much.
If you have questions, email me at lisa.caballero@swtrails.org
Lisa Caballero, Vice President SWTrails PDX