Multimodal Missing Links

What is happening now?

[Updated July 14, 2026] 

A list of 14 Bicycle and Pedestrian Intersection Safety projects are fully designed and ready for construction. Adjacent property owners have been notified by mail of the planned changes. Construction is expected in the summer and fall of 2026, although staffing changes and weather can impact timelines. 

What are Multimodal Missing Links?

Multimodal Missing Links are projects that bridge funding or implementation gaps from other capital projects, install critical updates to the transportation system during paving, and improve immediate operational or safety issues. 

These projects are also developed from many different sources, including community requests (such as 311) and from adopted plans. Examples of planning efforts guiding investments include the Safe Routes to School Infrastructure Plan, implementation plans such as North Portland in Motion, and the Portland Transportation System Plan. 

Will my project be considered?

If you have an immediate safety concern or would like to suggest a project idea, please contact 311 for assistance.

In progress: Bicycle and Pedestrian Intersection Safety Projects

The list of projects below involves installing green painted Bike Boxes and removing parking spaces near intersections located on the city's Safe Routes to School and Neighborhood Greenway networks. These safety treatments increase the visibility of people biking and walking.

Why install Bike Boxes? 

View full size image of A green bike box with two cyclists in it, in front of a car stopped at the stop bar

Bike boxes enable people biking to roll to the front of the line at a yellow or red light. 

Bike boxes and the green painted bike lanes remove vehicle parking close to intersections, which also improves the visibility of people using crosswalks.

People driving should stop behind the white line at a yellow or red light, and yield to people biking before traveling through the intersection when the light is green. Only people biking can take a right on red at a bike box. 

Planned Bike Box Locations and Project Status 

North 

Awaiting Construction
N Willamette Blvd at N Interstate Ave - west leg only
Estimated construction: Summer/Fall 2026
Neighborhood: Overlook (District 2)

Project Development
N Wabash St at N Lombard St
Estimated construction: TBD / needs ODOT approval
Neighborhood: Kenton (District 2)

Northeast

Awaiting Construction
NE Morris St at NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd 
Estimated construction: Summer 2026
Neighborhood: Elliot (District 2)

NE 77th Ave at NE Sandy Blvd 
Estimated construction: Summer/Fall 2026
Neighborhood: Roseway (District 3)

NE Irving St at NE 20th Ave
Estimated construction: Fall 2026/Spring 2027
Neighborhood: Kerns (District 3)

SE/NE 32nd Ave at E Burnside St
Estimated construction: Fall 2026/Spring 2027
Neighborhood: Laurelhurst (District 3)

Southeast

Awaiting Construction
SE Harold St at SE 92nd Ave - east leg only; bike lane extension on 92nd Ave to Ellis
Estimated construction: Summer 2026
Neighborhood: Lents (District 1)

SE 128th Ave and Foster Rd
Estimated construction: Summer 2026
Neighborhood: Powellhurst-Gilbert (District 1)

SE 52nd Ave and Foster Rd
Estimated construction: Summer 2026
Neighborhood: Foster-Powell (District 3)

SE 52nd Ave and Powell Blvd
Estimated construction: Summer 2026
Neighborhood: Foster-Powell (District 3)

SE 101st Ave and Foster Rd
Estimated construction: Fall 2026/Spring 2027
Neighborhood: Lents (District 1)

SE 162nd Ave and Main St
Estimated construction: Summer/Fall 2026
Neighborhood: Centennial (District 1)

SE 148th Ave and SE Mill St
Estimated construction: Fall 2026/Spring 2027
Neighborhood: Centennial (District 1)

SE 67th Ave and Foster Rd
Estimated construction: Fall 2026/Spring 2027
Neighborhood: Foster-Powell (District 3)

In design
SE 92nd Ave and Flavel Rd
Estimated construction: 2027
Neighborhood: Lents (District 1)
Notes: West leg only; green bike lane extensions

Southwest

Awaiting Construction
SW Maplewood Ave at Multnomah Blvd - north leg only
Estimated construction: Summer 2026
Neighborhood: Maplewood (District 4)

Northwest

On Hold
NW 9th Ave and Lovejoy St - north leg only
Estimated construction: Summer 2026
Neighborhood: Pearl (District 4)

Completed Projects

2026
SE 28th Ave and SE Holgate Blvd
Neighborhood: Creston (District 3,4)

2025
SE 34th Ave and SE Hawthorne St 
Neighborhood: Sunnyside/Richmond (District 3)

SE 34th Ave and SE Division St
Neighborhood: Richmond (District 3)

SE 17th Ave and SE Division St
Neighborhood: Hosford-Abernethy (District 3)

Program Outreach

Area neighbors and businesses are notified of planned changes and parking removal by letter or postcard early on in the design phase of a project. 

Some property owners and residents may have received notifications about several locations back in 2025. Those projects were delayed due to staffing challenges, but will be completed soon. 

Paving Updates

An element of the Multimodal Missing Links program is installing critical updates to the transportation system (like updating travel lane sizes to create more space for people biking or walking) during scheduled paving work. PBOT's paving schedule and projects are still under development for this year's construction window. 

Potential updates to roadway configurations during paving can be found here or on individual project webpages (also linked here).

• SW 6th Avenue - Buffered Bike lanes
  • Construction expected in late summer 2026
     
• NW St. Helens Road - Buffered Bike lanes
  • NW Yeon to 30th Avenues; construction TBD

Past Program Highlights

North Interstate Avenue Traffic Safety Improvements (2023)

PBOT staff reviewed N Interstate Avenue from N Fremont to NE Oregon (approximately 1.75 miles) and found locations where updates could improve safety by creating more space between bike lanes and auto travel lanes, highlighting intersection turning movements, and updating crosswalks. 

N Interstate Avenue is identified as a high crash corridor, particularly for people bicycling. Between 2010 and 2014 there were 25 crashes involving cyclists between NE Oregon Street and N Columbia Avenue. Staff identified safety improvements that could be installed immediately with available funding through the Multimodal Missing Links program. North Portland in Motion includes recommendations for additional N Interstate Ave improvements.

View full size image of Image shows four locations with updated bicycle and pedestrian safety improvements

SE Woodward Street at 59th Avenue Intersection Improvement (2025)

SE Woodward Street is a Neighborhood Greenway and is part of the Portland Safe Routes to School Priority Infrastructure Network, streets where a majority of students are likely to be walking or biking to school. 

The large intersection pavement area at the intersection of SE Woodward Street and 59th Avenue encouraged fast speeds, allowed space for dangerous vehicle movements, and made walking, biking, and rolling less safe. Community members developed project ideas and collaborated with PBOT to create a safer street.

View full size image of Before and after images of traffic calming island on SE 59th at SE Woodward