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Transportation
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Engineering and design
PBOT will build new neighborhood greenway on four corridors in the Portsmouth and University Park neighborhoods. Neighborhood greenways are quiet, slow streets that prioritize people walking, bicycling, and rolling, and provide connectors between neighborhood parks, schools, and business district.
To Be Completed in Summer 2026.
What’s happening now?
Design is complete and construction is underway. Letters to residents, businesses and the neighborhood associations in the project area were mailed in summer 2025. Additional notification of construction were sent in Spring 2026. Construction is currently underway with the project major construction to be completed in early July 2026.
Updated June 2026
Project Description
Create three new neighborhood greenways in the Portsmouth and University Park neighborhoods to provide low-traffic and low-speed streets for people walking, bicycling, and rolling. The three new corridors are N Wall and N Fiske avenues and N Princeton Street. N Houghton and N Wall intersection will have improvement to make the crossing better.
Neighborhood greenways form the backbone of the city’s Safe Routes to School network and connect neighborhoods, parks, schools, and business districts. Portland has more than 100 miles of neighborhood greenways in every part of the city.
Improvements include:
- Speed bumps - Traffic calming improvements to keep speeds slow and safe for everyone.
- Improved crossings - Including crosswalks, cross bikes, traffic calming, and stop sign reorientation to prioritize greenway travel at select intersections.
- Wayfinding signs -Distance and estimated travel times for popular destinations are posted on signs throughout the network.
- Shared street markings - Shared street markings (also called sharrow) indicate where to ride on the street and serve as wayfinding along the route
- Bike boxes - At busy signalized intersections, bike boxes and No Turn on Red signs create more space and safer crossings for people walking and biking.
Project Background
In 2024 PBOT adopted the North Portland in Motion plan, which identifies transportation needs and near-term investments to improve access to community destinations and support walking, biking, and transit use in the North Portland peninsula.
A number of Neighborhood Greenways are included in the North Portland in Motion plan, including the four Portsmouth-University Park corridors.
A page from the North Portland in Motion plan (shown below) can be found as part of the adopted plan.
Project Goals
- Create comfortable and safe bike and walk ways connecting schools, parks, and commercial areas in the Portsmouth and University Park neighborhoods.
- Reduce travel speeds on neighborhood streets.
- Improve crossings of busy streets for people walking and bicycling.
Project Timeline
Summer 2025: Public Outreach- Letters sent to neighborhood properties and property owners and to neighborhood associations. Some letters also sent to impacted properties and property owners regarding minor changes to available parking on their frontage
Fall/Winter 2025: Design.
Spring 2026: Finalize design. Public Outreach - Pre-construction notice to neighborhood properties and property owners and to neighborhood associations
Spring/Summer 2026: Construction
Public Involvement.
Project Funding
This project is funded by Portland Clean Energy Fund.