Services and Resources for Sidewalks

Hiring an arborist to do tree work can be intimidating. Trees are a slow-growing resource and tree work can be expensive. To protect yourself and your trees, make sure to hire a professional arborist.

Portland Bureau of Transportation's Safe Routes to School program is installing temporary traffic playgrounds and playspaces. Learn what traffic playgrounds and playspaces are, and where you can find them.

Safe Routes to School has created two multi-day education units on health and transportation safety. Each unit features an interactive PowerPoint presentation that covers crash prevention, road etiquette, traffic laws, and how to ride transit.

Information on caring for trees in Portland.

Information on reporting tree emergencies, defining "emergencies" and "non-emergencies," and when the City gets involved.

Tree Walks connect community members to the trees of our City. Join a scheduled event, create your own, or sign up to host a tree walk in your neighborhood.

The Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) recently awarded the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) $500,000 from its "Percent for Green" program. The program collects a percent of development charges and uses that money to fund large-scale green infrastructure projects.

TRN 1.22 establishes the situations in which the City will accept the existing sidewalk configuration as the standard for the block length. This page is intended to explain the policy in a step by step manner to assist property owners in determining if this policy applies to their property.

This section covers Portland Bureau of Transportation's (PBOT) insurance requirements for utility vault installations in the public right-of-way.

Certain utility vaults constructed in city right-of-way as a result of new development may require the owner or tenant to enter into a lease with the city for privatization of public right-of-way. Leases processed by Right-of-Way Acquisition team at the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT).

Following a deadly crash, we install temporary displays to recognize the impact of traffic violence.

The Portland Bureau of Transportation Safe Routes to School program invites you and your family to learn about traffic safety.

We use equity data and traffic crash data to identify and prioritize investments.

In the past, a lot of traffic safety work focused on the individual behavior of road users. In contrast, Vision Zero’s Safe System approach considers how the people who design, build, and manage the transportation network can prioritize the lives and health of people using the system.  

Whether it’s paving our streets, filling potholes, improving street lighting, building sidewalks or helping our youngest Portlanders safely walk, bike and roll to school, the Fixing Our Streets program will help Portland move forward while improving our transportation system for all.

PBOT is helping create more room in crowded areas where people, especially pedestrians, might find it harder to keep six feet apart, such as on narrow sidewalks, at crowded bus stops, or at busy intersections where people wait to cross. PBOT will use physical barriers, paint, and other markings.

The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has started a new initiative called Safe Streets to respond to the Covid-19 public health crisis. PBOT will make temporary changes to city streets to give people more space to walk, bike, roll, do business, and get around in their neighborhood

How will PBOT's Slow Streets program work? Read our frequently asked questions and our guidelines for using Portland's Neighborhood Greenways.