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News Blog: Use ranked-choice voting to select the next five snowplow names

PBOT owns and operates 56 snowplows. Help choose the next five snowplow names!

News article

Five people hold up signs with the winning snowplow names printed on them. PBOT snowplow trucks are parked in the background.

News Release: Portland’s Snowplow Naming Contest returns!

The Portland Bureau of Transportation has 56 snowplows. For the second year in a row the bureau asks Portlanders to submit names for five more snowplow names

Press release

Five people hold up signs with the winning snowplow names printed on them. PBOT snowplow trucks are parked in the background.

News Release: Smoother street ahead: PBOT’s Gravel Street Service kicks off another season with work beginning in SE Portland on Monday

This year’s service will address streets in Southeast, Northeast, and North Portland.

News article

News Release: Leaf Day returns Saturday, Nov. 1, reaching 30,000 new addresses with specialized street cleaning to prevent street flooding, road hazards

Thousands of addresses added to Leaf Day zones

Updated Press release

News Blog: The rainy season returns! Adopt your neighborhood storm drain and help prevent street flooding

Portland’s storm drains, also known as catch basins, help with stormwater runoff and prevent flooding. If drains get clogged with fallen leaves and other debris, it can lead to dangerous ponding along city streets and intersections.

Blog post

Illustration of a platypus raking leaves away from a storm drain with the text "Adopt a storm drain"

Traffic Advisory: NW Cornell Road from NW Westover Road to NW 53rd Avenue to close for emergency repairs for two weeks starting Oct. 4

Traffic Advisory

Traffic Advisory: A smoother street is coming to NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard from NE Holladay Street to East Burnside, thanks to Fixing Our Streets

Traffic Advisory

Traffic Advisory: A smoother street is coming to NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard from NE Weidler to Holladay Street starting Monday, Aug. 25

The work is expected to last approximately seven business days and is funded by Fixing Our Streets, Portland's voter-approved 10-cent gas tax and heavy vehicle use tax for fixing our streets and making them safer for all.

Traffic Advisory

Traffic Advisory: SW Tichner Drive reopens after landslide

Along with the specialized work requiring climbing ropes and precision tools, clearing rocks and debris that fell during the slide and response work required 32 truckloads. Approximately 3,406 tons of material were removed.

Updated Traffic Advisory

Crews use a crane to hang and install the new draped cable mesh system that will keep rocks from falling onto W Burnside and SW Tichner Drive. Photo by PBOT.

UPDATED Traffic Advisory: A smoother street is coming to SE Washington Street from SE 82nd to 92nd avenues starting Aug. 18

The work is expected to last approximately seven business days.

Updated Traffic Advisory

Traffic Advisory: Maintenance on Vista Bridge in Southwest Portland requires daytime closures, Aug. 11-15

Bridge to close to motor vehicles from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. during workdays

Updated Traffic Advisory

Traffic Advisory: Bridge repairs on NE 28th Avenue overpass over I-84 requires closures from Aug. 4-8:

The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) will conduct expansion joint repairs and replacements on the NE 28th Avenue overpass over I-84 from Monday, Aug. 4 to Friday, Aug. 8 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.

Traffic Advisory

Traffic Advisory: Bridge maintenance on Thurman Street Bridge in Northwest Portland on Wednesday, July 30

Westbound traffic will be detoured during repairs to the historic bridge

Traffic Advisory

NW Thurman St. Scaffolding

News Release: PBOT says failure of state Transportation Reinvestment Package will have significant impacts in Portland

Every dollar invested in preventative maintenance can save up to $10 in future reconstruction

Updated Press release

Traffic Advisory: A smoother street is coming to NE Prescott from NE 105th to 115th avenues starting on June 16

The work is expected to last approximately seven business days and conclude on June 25.

Traffic Advisory

Three PBOT crew members in safety gear driving, guiding, or brushing fresh asphalt during a paving project.

Traffic Advisory: A smoother street is coming to N Kilpatrick Street from N Denver to Delaware avenues

The work is expected to be complete on June 9.

Updated News article

Traffic Advisory: A smoother street is coming to SE Stark Street from SE 108th to 122nd avenues

The paving work is the third phase of PBOT’s $23 million Safer Outer Stark project

Traffic Advisory

Repaving to complete a sewer repair requires full closure of N Vancouver Avenue, from Columbia Blvd to Lombard St on Wednesday, April 2

Use alternate routes on Wednesday

Updated Traffic Advisory

Traffic Advisory: Repairs to NE 33rd Avenue Bridge over Lombard Street require closures on Saturday, March 15

Repair work will begin at 6 a.m. and is expected to be complete by 5 p.m.

Traffic Advisory

Damaged railings on the NE 33rd Avenue Bridge were caused by an oversized semi that struck the railing causing structural damage. Photo by PBOT.

News Release: PBOT releases 2024 deadly crash report, with the latest annual figures in traffic safety

Traffic deaths drop by 16% in Portland, but deadly trends on high crash corridors continue

Updated Press release

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