Local gas tax projects (2024-2028)

View full size image of Pie chart with three equal sections each with $23.5 million allocated: Community Street Services, Smoother Streets Projects, and Safer Streets Projects.

When voters renewed the 10-cent gas tax in May 2024, PBOT estimated it would generate $70.5 million over four years for street maintenance and safety improvements as detailed below. Funds will be allocated as follows: 

Smoother Streets Projects ($23.5 million):

• Paving busy streets and neighborhood greenways ($19 million)
• Paving local streets ($4.5 million)

Safer Streets Projects ($23.5 million):

• Safety on busy streets ($9 million)
• Safety on neighborhood streets ($6 million)
• Safe Routes to School ($6 million)
• Additional safety enhancements ($2.5 million)

Community Street Services ($23.5 million):

• Potholes ($5.5 million)
• Signals and lighting maintenance ($3.5 million)
• Gravel Street Service ($4 million)
• Base repair ($4 million)
• Safer intersections ($2 million)
• Pedestrian, bicycle, and public space retrofits ($2.5 million)
• Residential street safety and traffic calming ($2 million)

Smoother Streets Projects ($23.5 million)

What is it? 

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Paving dollars from this funding cycle are focused on preventive maintenance like grind-and-inlay and sealing treatments that preserve and extend the life of our roads. This includes reconstructing corner curb ramps to improve accessibility and upgrading pavement markings to current standards. It also includes installing high-visibility crosswalks or adding striped buffers to bike lanes where space allows.

Allocation

Total of $23.5 million for paving projects, spread approximately equally across the four new city council districts. Includes:

• $19 million for grind-and-inlay paving projects on collector streets and arterials, transit and freight routes, emergency routes, streets on our High Crash Network, the Neighborhood Greenways that make up our pedestrian and bike network. This work will be guided by the City's commitment to the elimination of inequities.
• $4.5 million for crack seal and slurry seal projects on local streets.

Project list (by council district)

Safer Streets Projects ($23.5 million)

These projects were identified by PBOT staff and reviewed by the Fixing Our Streets Oversight Committee during 2025 and 2026.

Safety on busy streets ($9 million)

What is it? 

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This category is designed to provide small-scale safety improvements to reduce conflicts, address high-crash locations, and lower speeds on busy streets. It would provide funds for new or improved crossings, sidewalks, and lighting along our busiest streets, especially for projects that can leverage additional outside funding. Consistent with Portland’s Vision Zero strategy, investments will be focused on the High Crash Network. This network represents 8% of Portland streets yet accounts for 62% of traffic deaths.

Allocation

• Approximately $1 million or more will be invested in each of the four new city council districts.
• $5 million to make larger safety investments guided by the City's commitment to the elimination of inequities, especially projects that leverage additional outside funding.

Priority locations 

• Where safety improvements are needed on the High Crash Network or other documented high-crash segments or intersections along busy streets in Portland
• High priorities in PedPDX: Portland’s Citywide Pedestrian Plan, based on the need for safety, equity, and access to transit and major destinations

Project list (by council district)

District 1

• SE Foster Road and Woodstock Boulevard Couplet Project – UNDER CONSTRUCTION
• SE 92nd Avenue and Clinton Street - Pedestrian crossing improvement – IN DESIGN
• NE Halsey Street from 160th to 162nd avenues - Crash reduction – IN DESIGN
• NE 122nd Avenue Safety and Access to Transit – IN DESIGN
• SE Division Street from 148th to 174th avenues - Access management – IN DESIGN
• SE Stark Street from 111th to 151st avenues - Access management and pedestrian crossings – IN DESIGN
• NE/SE 148th Avenue Safety and Access to Transit – IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT, included in Busy Streets and Neighborhood Streets project lists

District 2

• Safe signal timing improvements – IN DESIGN
• NE MLK Jr Boulevard Safety and Access to Transit – IN DESIGN
• N Richmond Avenue and Lombard Street - Protected bus-only left turn lane and signal – IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
• N Portland Road and Columbia Way - Pedestrian safety enhancements – IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

District 3

• NE Halsey Street Safety and Access to Transit – UNDER CONSTRUCTION
• SE Holgate Boulevard Mid-Block Crossing between 61st and 62nd avenues – IN DESIGN
• SE Powell Blvd (Hwy 26) Safer Signals and Transit Signal Priority: Milwaukie to 82nd avenues – IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
• Multimodal signal sensor for safety – COMPLETED in 2026

District 4

• SW Terwilliger Boulevard / Duniway Park Cycle Track – IN DESIGN
• SW Bertha Boulevard and Capitol Hill Road - Pedestrian crossing – IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
• Leveraging ADA Ramp Improvements for Pedestrian-Scale Lighting in the Central City – IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
• W Burnside Street safe signal timing improvements – COMPLETED in 2026

Citywide or Cross-District

• Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4: Accessible pedestrian signal and countdown module retrofits – UNDER CONSTRUCTION
• Districts 2, 3 and 4: Protected left turns for safer intersections – UNDER CONSTRUCTION
• Districts 2, 3 and 4: Street lighting on High Crash Corridors – IN DESIGN
• Districts 3 and 4: SE César E Chávez Boulevard from Lafayette Court to Schiller Street - Road reorganization and pedestrian crossings – IN DESIGN
• Districts 1 and 2: Signing Upgrades at Signals on High Crash Corridors – IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
• Districts 1 and 3: Signal Timing for Safety in East and Southeast Portland – IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

Safety on neighborhood streets ($6 million)

What is it?

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Neighborhood streets are often the main routes for people walking, rolling, and biking to their local schools, parks, and main streets. This category would fund traffic calming such as speed bumps and diverters, crosswalks, and other improvements along our low-traffic pedestrian and bike network known as Neighborhood Greenways, especially around parks, schools, main streets, and other destinations.

Allocation

A total of $6 million for safety projects like neighborhood greenways, traffic calming such as speed bumps and diverters, and crosswalks on local streets and minor collectors that primarily serve the surrounding neighborhoods, as follows:

• Approximately $750,000 or more invested in each of the four new council districts.
• $3 million to make larger safety investments guided by the City's commitment to the elimination of inequities, especially projects that leverage additional outside funding.

Priority locations

• Projects in neighborhood safety plans such as East Portland in Motion, Southwest in Motion, North Portland in Motion, Lower Southeast Rising, and Connected Cully
• Neighborhood-level projects that address deficiencies in the pedestrian and bicycle network identified by our citywide pedestrian and bicycle plans
• Small-scale safety projects that respond to issues reported by community members and organizations through our safety hotline or direct outreach. Projects are vetted by engineering staff to confirm the need and level of safety benefit.

Safe Routes to School ($6 million) 

What is it? 

PBOT’s Safe Routes to School program is a partnership between the city, schools, neighborhoods, community organizations, and agencies. Projects are designed to improve the safety of students and families walking, biking, and rolling to school.

Allocation

A total of $6 million for safety projects like crossings, traffic calming, lighting, signage, and improvements along neighborhood greenways directly adjacent to schools and on the main routes regularly used by students and caregivers to get to school, as follows:

• Approximately $750,000 or more invested in each of the four new city council districts.
• $3 million to make larger safety investments guided by the City's commitment to the elimination of inequities, especially projects that leverage additional outside funding.

Priority Locations

• Identified projects in the Safe Routes to School Strategic Plan 2018-23, developed in 2017 with the first cycle of funding from the local 10-cent gas tax.
• Other Safe Routes to School projects added since 2017 because of new or emerging issues due to changes in school boundaries or other developments

Project list (by council district)

District 1

• SE 112th Avenue and Boise Street - Pedestrian median island and marked crosswalks – IN DESIGN
• SE Stark Street & 135th Avenue Traffic Signal​ – IN DESIGN
• NE Fremont Street from 118th to 122nd avenues sidewalk – IN DESIGN
• SE 170th Avenue and Haig Street - Pedestrian crossing – IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

District 2

• High-visibility crosswalks on the High Crash Network – IN DESIGN, some locations awaiting construction

District 3

• SE 52nd Avenue and Franklin Street - High-visibility crosswalk – DESIGN COMPLETED, awaiting construction
• SE Holgate Boulevard from 29th to 31st avenues - Traffic calming – IN DESIGN
• SE Glenwood Street from 44th to 45th avenues - Sidewalk infill – IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
• SE 62nd Avenue and Cooper Street - Sidewalk infill – COMPLETED IN 2026
• SE Woodward Street from 57th to 58th avenues - Sidewalk infill – COMPLETED IN 2026
• NE 43rd Avenue and Royal Court - Intersection improvement – COMPLETED IN 2026

District 4

• SW Galeburn Street from SW 41st Avenue to Capitol Highway - Sidewalk – IN DESIGN, included in Neighborhood Streets and Safe Routes to Schools project lists
• SW 35th Avenue from Huber to Arnold streets - Lighting upgrades – IN DESIGN
• SW 35th Avenue from Huber to Pomona streets - Traffic calming – IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
• SW Cameron Street at 48th and 54th avenues - Pedestrian crossings – IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

Citywide or Cross-District

• Districts 1, 2, 3, and 4: Vision Clearance at Schools – IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
• Districts 1, 2, 3, and 4: School Access and Circulation Improvements – IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
• Project Development for Future Grant Projects
  • District 1: SE 128th Avenue from Ramona Street to Holgate Boulevard - Sidewalk
  • District 3: NE Tillamook Street from 82nd to 92nd avenues - Sidewalk
  • District 3: SE Foster Road and 54th Avenue - Crossing improvement

Additional safety enhancements ($2.5 million) 

What is it?

This program is designed to provide additional safety elements to maintenance projects. This combines both safety and maintenance work.

Allocation

• $2.5 million citywide to leverage repaving projects, utility projects, and other similar work to add safety features like enhanced crossings and other pedestrian and bikeway improvements

Priority locations

• Projects will be primarily chosen based on leverage opportunity and consistency with existing plans, public input, and cost effectiveness

Project list

• NE Glisan Street: 80th to 102nd avenues – UNDER CONSTRUCTION
• SW Sheridan Street: SW Terwilliger Boulevard to SW Fourth Avenue – IN DESIGN
• NE Broadway: 7th to 26th avenues – COMPLETED in 2025

Community Street Services ($23.5 million)

What is it? 

Responding to routine maintenance and safety requests. Examples of this work include filling potholes, fixing damaged traffic signals and streetlights, maintaining gravel streets, and calming traffic.

Allocations

• Potholes ($5.5 million) - Funds a crew to address potholes
• Gravel Street Service ($4 million) - Funds a crew focused on PBOT’s Gravel Street Service throughout the city
• Base repair ($4 million) - Funds base repair projects
• Signal and lighting maintenance ($3.5 million) - Funds signal and streetlight repair and maintenance
• Safer intersections ($2 million) - Funds safety improvements at intersections with signals. Examples: adding accessible pedestrian push buttons and bicycle detection, changing signals to give people walking and bicycling a head start crossing the street, and adjustments to signal timing.
• Pedestrian, bicycle, and public space retrofits ($2.5 million) - Funds permanent upgrades to temporary safety installations. Examples: replacing reflective plastic wands along a bike lane with concrete traffic separators; replacing a painted curb extension with a concrete one; or supplementing planters with concrete islands.
• Residential street safety and traffic calming ($2 million) - Provides funding for PBOT’s hotline to respond to safety concerns from the public. This would also fund traffic safety interventions such as speed bumps on residential streets, with such projects prioritized by safety and equity criteria.