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2019 Public Involvement Summary Report 2019 Public Involvement Summary Report Open-Ended Comments Are there important locations missing from the current proposed Rose Lane Vision that you think we should consider? Why? ................................................................................................................................. 2 How would the Rose Lane Project personally affect you? ......................................................................... 23 Is there anything else you would like to share with the Rose Lane project team? .................................... 72 1 Are there important locations missing from the current proposed Rose Lane Vision that you think we should consider? Why? You definitely need to experiment before you re-design Red Lanes, bike lanes, etc., in outer East - NE Glisan is a perfect example of why it is not a beneficial to anyone with the elimination of one lane each way - all it has done is create a driving restriction for drivers. Not enough locations east of 82nd Ave. Powell Blvd, Barbur Blvd. I know, theyre ODOT. I support working on them. Strongly support - with the condition that you look at E of 82nd Ave. Yes, there are several locations missing including E. PDX. Specially Powell 122nd -> 162 East County. A lot of people travel, live, work, and need access to faster ways to get home. Dedicate bus lanes in East County will incentivize people to ride more. Put the money into homeless services, are you crazy? No one gives a shit about kool aid bus lanes. Get a grip TV Highway. Put in high capacity express buses from the suburbs and across suburbs to reduce travel time instead of routing all suburban buses to max. Foster Rd at 50th westbound, Foster at Holgate westbound, Foster at 82nd, and Foster at 92nd eastbound could use signal prioritization, jump ques, and other features of the Rose Lane Project. More of 122nd should be prioritized for transit as Airport Way is an important area of opportunity and jobs for many residents of SE Portland and Clackamas. Expanding the proposed areas along 122nd will ensure that working families have additional time, money, and resources to spend with family and provide stable households within marginalized areas of Portland, thus helping to serve equity concerns along the spatial and socioeconomic margins of the city. Yes, every other arterial with a frequent bus or streetcar line!! I would like the city to reconsider the the bike lanes on Foster. I think more people would be served by bus lanes and safer crossings for bikes and pedestrians. I bike in this neighborhood often and don't use the Foster bike lanes, opting instead for the greenways and other side streets. no Along Front Avenue/Route 30/Bridge Road (to the St. Johns Bridge). Residents of St. Johns do not have a frequent-service/rapid transit option for getting to and from the City Center. I live in Happy Valley. I work out every morning on my way to work and have many kid activities I'm trying to get to in the evening. This change adds 20-25 mins to my home commute everyday. Very frustrating!! Traffic here is congested as can be. Taking away lanes from the majority to give to transit helps transit, but enough people are transit-resistant to where this is not viable. The hobo situation on transit makes my family outright ANXIOUS. Like, "I talk about this in therapy" anxious, to be in Portland. They won't ride because it's not safe. I watched someone strung out get ejected from the green line this very morning. Until you make it safer, I don't want to give up lanes to you, especially outside the city core. North Portland! Make 82nd Ave a higher priority, converting outside travel lane to BAT. High equity need, high pedestrian demand, and great opportunity to transform from auto-centric to mult-modal 2 Barbur needs to be a high priority. So much room available, many lines affected. Holgate especially as it approaches 17th would greatly effect roll in of buses finishing shift. Minutes saved there are often overtime minutes can have a dramatic effect on service budget. Signal priority. Get buses ahead of traffic, reduces conflict with all modes and capitalizes on benefit of rose lanes. Are you going to do anything in Beaverton? All of downtown 82nd Ave is home to some of the most diverse census tracts in the state of Oregon and provides access to opportunity of education, employment, and travel via PDX. I'd strongly encourage and support Rose Lane treatment along 82nd quickly as well as east-west routes into East Portland. Hawthorne Bridge and Belmont Bridge. More coverage in The Numbers/East PDX and the southern reaches of SE inside 82. Coverage for north of 84 and east of 205. Not everybody has the luxury to ride a bike or take public transit. Most people have to drive a car. The city wants more density but falsely assumes every person can ride a bike or commute by public transit. Those elected "officials" are being extremely closed minded. Reminds me of the movie "Dumb and Dumber". We shouldn't have any four lane road that doesn't have a dedicated bus lane in it. The Cesar Chavez Blvd corridor, because it's an important connection that's unreliable at present Barbur. Easily room available. Greatest effect on multiple lines. Buffer for bikes. Slooooooow down cars. Suburbs This plan covers the areas where I have been frustratingly delayed on a bus. Percent times are a poor way to measure the significance of changes- 6 minutes is a minor difference even when it is 20%. What matters is reliability of the time it will take- this project may improve that as well but it hasn't been discussed in your presentations NW 10th and 11th in the Pearl District. Broadway between Interstate and MLK. These are critical links with high ridership and frequent delays. It looks like a thorough and well-considered set of projects from the get-go. Locations should be selected based on a combination of bus frequency and potential for delays from SOV traffic; by all indications that appears to be the case. SE Portland - #75, #19 Barbur Boulevard inbound to downtown from about Hamilton to Water. The buses get stuck behind all the cars waiting to get on the Ross Island Bridge. They can't go over a lane and pass them because they need to get to the bus stop. SE Portland, #19 and #75 bus lines 20+ suggested pilot programs? Seriously? PBOT needs to select 4 and do the pilot program and see what happens. Target two easy ones, and a hard one, and get the data back. Greeley. the 25 bus gets extremely backed up approaching adidas campus, and there are two lanes, one could be alloted to transit only I believe the bridges need to be a higher priority. Lombard Ave - 75 is needed for St Johns growth 3 The fact that SE Powell is not your #1 priority for SE East-West route is crazy. North-South routes are desperately needed on the East Side and yet I only see one route inside of 82nd. Overall it is a really stupid idea to put high-traffic bus lanes on the same streets as cars. Waze and other Maps apps will simply route cars onto residential streets if you do this. Instead you should put dedicated bus lanes and bike lanes on the same streets, offset a block or two from the primary car streets. 33rd Ave NE between Sandy and Killingsworth could benefit from a Rose Lane. It is nearly always backed up during rush hour (AM and PM) which causes sometimes intense delays on the 70 bus and has caused me to miss a transfer in the past. You are creating havoc with your ideas making it unsafe There are probably more opportunities for intersection-based focused improvements in outer portland. Every section of every bus route in the central city. Delays downtown ripple out across the entire system. Taking out Hawthorne and Belmont is just not a good idea. With Foster reduced to one lane, these are major transportation arteries now. I'm a full supporter of more busses, more frequent stops, and having them go later into the night. But you can't just remove some streets. Yes, Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy approaching SW 30th Ave headed eastbound during AM rush hour as it routinely backs up. Also depending on SW Corridor improvements in this plan means at least 6-8 years with significant rust hour delays in SW Portland - there is plenty of room on the roadway right now on Barbur and ODOT shares some responsibility for making that roadway work better than it does right now. Overall the plan seems good. The bridges and east-side approaches seem to be the worst delays NE Gleason Parking in the neighborhoods...dozens of cars are driven into the city along Belmont, then parked in the neighborhoods at the bus stops. We need OUTER park and ride facilities to allow people to keep their cars out of the city and take advantage of this transit change. I-5 bus routes (e.g., 96, Ctran) Streetcar priority should extend north to Everett, since it currently gets caught up in traffic between Burnside and Glisan. Transit priority on NE Broadway should extend through the I-5 Rose Quarter Interchange. Expedite the 82nd Ave and Powell proposals Consider that many of the City of Portland employees live in more affordable suburbs - Gresham, Clackamas, Troutdale, Fairview, Hillsboro, Aloha. If these commuters have a situation similar to mine where there are multiple stops to make each morning (childcare, schools, etc.) public transportation may not be an option for them.
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