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News Blog: PBOT Maintenance Crews install ADA-compliant curb ramps along NE Fremont Street

Find the historic Freemont curb stamps and win a prize!

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News Release: Safety improvements, travel tips, and a reminder to all Portlanders as students head back to the classroom: “Kids are everywhere. Drive like it.”

PBOT’s Safe Routes to School program is supporting families as they make the transition back to in-school learning

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Traffic Advisory: A smoother street is coming to NE Fremont Street, from NE 59th to NE 40th

(March 30, 2021) Paving work begins this Thursday, April 1 on NE Fremont Street from NE 59th to 40th avenues, as part of the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s (PBOT) ongoing street maintenance program.

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Traffic Advisory: Faster buses, safety improvements coming to SE Hawthorne Boulevard and Madison Street from the Hawthorne Bridge to SE 12th Avenue

Construction begins Tuesday, March 30 and will last approximately three months.

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News Release: Construction begins on Better Naito Forever, a premier bikeway and new accessible sidewalk along Waterfront Park

Construction on SW Naito Parkway Improvement Project begins new phase.
Funded by Fixing Our Streets, both projects will make it easier and safer to walk and bike downtown and on the waterfront.

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News Release: City of Portland supports HB 2530 & HB 3357 to save lives, expand use of safety cameras for speed enforcement

Bill would make pilot program permanent, make camera technology available to cities across Oregon

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News Release: City of Portland opposes House Bill 3065

City's Task Force on Pricing for Equitable Mobility releases recommendations for how to implement tolling equitably and sustainably, while new Oregon House bill goes in different direction

Legislation would burden city with cost of improving state's 82nd Avenue

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News Release: PBOT continues popular, free Healthy Businesses permit program for summer 2021

Findings show the Healthy Businesses program has been key to survival of Portland businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic with over 1,000 permits issued since the program’s inception in May 2020

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