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Transportation
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In planning
The Cully and 57th Complete Street Project will improve multimodal safety between NE Prescott and Klickitat streets and will include walkway improvements, accessibility upgrades, enhanced crossings, improved bike lanes, transit enhancements, and a full signal rebuild at NE Fremont Street.
2024 - 2028
Location description
NE Cully Boulevard and NE 57th Avenue
What's happening now?
The project's concept design online open house and survey closed on April 7, 2026. The project team is working through responses to the survey and other conversations with community members to help inform design refinements. A summary of concept design phase engagement will be available on this webpage soon, including an overview of design refinements informed by what we learned. At that time, the scope of the project will be finalized. While the survey is closed, you can still visit the preserved Online Open House to learn more about the project.
As the project design advances, the project team is still talking with people in the area. If you have any questions, feedback, or concerns about the project, please contact the staff members on the right side of this page under "Contact." PBOT staff would be happy to talk with you.
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Project overview
PBOT is designing improvements to NE Cully Boulevard and NE 57th Avenue between NE Prescott and NE Klickitat streets. The project will improve safety for pedestrians, people using mobility devices, people bicycling, people accessing transit, and people driving.
The project will:
- Improve the safer shoulder walkway on the west side of NE 57th Avenue, between NE Shaver and NE Fremont streets
- Widen the sidewalk on the east side of NE 57th Avenue, between NE Failing and NE Fremont streets
- Install accessible curb-ramps between NE Prescott and NE Fremont streets
- Add protected bicycle lanes where feasible between NE Prescott and NE Klickitat streets
- Construct new enhanced pedestrian crossings in the vicinity of the NE Failing Street and NE Skidmore Street intersections
- Install enhanced transit stops at NE Mason Street
- Rebuild the deficient traffic signal at NE Fremont Street
The project is included in Metro's Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) and the Portland Transportation System Plan (TSP). It is funded through a combination of a Metro Regional Flexible Fund Allocation (RFFA) grant, General Transportation Revenues (GTR), and a Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) grant.
Project map
Project background
NE Cully Boulevard and NE 57th Avenue function as the Cully neighborhood's main street. However, the street lacks safe and comfortable infrastructure for people walking, using mobility devices, biking, or accessing transit. There are locations with narrow or no sidewalks, deficient bicycle facilities, and long gaps between pedestrian crossings that do not meet City standards. Between 2010 and 2019, there were a total of 20 crashes within the project extents. These includes eight crashes involving people walking (one of which resulted in a death), six crashes involving people biking, and six serious injury crashes involving people in vehicles.
The street is identified as part of the Pedestrian Priority Network in PedPDX, Portland's citywide pedestrian plan. It is classified as a Major City Walkway and Major City Bikeway. This project partially implements a project on the Transportation System Plan (TSP) near-term project list (#40037).
Expected timeline
Community engagement and project development
Phase 1: Sharing and learning: October 2025 - February 2026
Phase 2: Concept sharing and community input: March - May 2026
Phase 3: Final scope refinements and design recommendations: May - July 2026
Design and Engineering to construction
Early design and environmental review: December 2025 - October 2026
Design and engineering advancement and completion: Spring 2026 - Winter 2026/27
Construction begins: 2028
Public engagement
Upcoming events
There are currently no planned events. You can sign up for email updates to learn about future events related to the project. You can also contact the project team at any time to discuss the project.
Previous engagement
To date, the following public engagement has occurred:
- October 2025:
- October 27: Cully Neighborhood and District 2 update via email, in both English and Spanish
- November 2025:
- Early November: Project mailer sent to area addresses (more than 1,100 addresses)
- November 18: Cully Association of Neighbors Land Use and Transportation meeting
- December 2025:
- December 12: Business canvassing near NE 57th Avenue and NE Fremont Street to better understand access, parking, and loading needs
- January/February 2026: Phone calls and emails regarding the project with impacted and interested community members
- March: Online Open House and Survey
- March 20, 2026: Canvassing about parking impacts and project concept design\
- Cully Neighborhood and District 2 update via email
- GovDelivery notice regarding Online Open House and Survey
- Phone calls and emails with impacted and interested residents, businesses, and property owners about project concept, impacts, and needs
- April
- April 3: Canvassing about parking impacts and project concept design
April 15: Cully Association of Neighbors Gathering meeting
- Phone calls and emails with impacted and interested residents, businesses, and property owners
- May
- Phone calls and emails with impacted and interested residents, businesses, and property owners
Project funding
$7,643,200 from Metro's Regional Flexible Fund Allocation (RFFA)
$874,800 from the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF)
This project is made possible with support from: