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This page describes the comprehensive improvements along 122nd Avenue that will be funded through the Safe Streets for All grant.
Overview
The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) was awarded a $20 million grant by the US Department of Transportation to make safety improvements along 122nd Avenue from SE Foster Road to NE Sandy Boulevard. The busy, five-lane arterial street is one of the most dangerous in the city and serves some of Portland’s most racially and ethnically diverse neighborhoods. PBOT will provide $5 million in matching funds to support the project, leveraging funds already allocated from Fixing Our Streets for paving SE 122nd Avenue between SE Foster Road and SE Holgate Street.
The Safe Streets and Roads for All grant will fund many of the major safety improvements identified in PBOT’s 122nd Avenue Plan, which engaged community members and stakeholders from 2017 through 2021 to understand how Portlander’s use the road today and their priorities for the future.
Using a combination of community feedback and traffic crash data analysis, numerous improvements along the 122nd Avenue corridor have been identified. Those improvements include:
- filling gaps in street lighting
- adding protected bike lanes
- new/improved pedestrian crossings
- adding median refuge islands and street trees
- safety improvements at major intersections
- reducing vehicle lanes south of Powell
- converting Harold Boulevard to a roundabout
- adding bus stop curb extensions
- upgrading all signals to improve safety
- adding speed reader boards
- developing a safety education campaign
City Council accepted the grant agreement with the Federal Highway Administration on May 29, 2024. More information about this project, including a project schedule and opportunities for public feedback and engagement, will be shared soon.
Southern Section Improvements (Powell to Foster)
In response to what we have heard from the community, South of Powell Boulevard PBOT is proposing more significant changes. These include:
- Road diet reducing the road from five lanes to two/three lanes
- Roundabout at 122nd and Harold
- Intersection redesign/repaving of SE 122nd and Foster (possible roundabout)
- Transit stop improvements/consolidation
- Repaving from Holgate to Foster
- Safety improvements at the intersection of SE 122nd and Powell
- Fill crossing gaps
Visit our website on the southern section of 122nd Avenue to learn more!
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Public Engagement
Public Outreach & Event & Meetings attended (please note this is not an exhaustive list of all events or outreach activities conducted)
- Division Midway Alliance Transportation Fair presentation July 13, 2024
- Oregon Walks Walk around NE 122nd Ave July 27, 2024
- Ethiopian and Eritrean Community Resource Center Electric Vehicle Launch and Sustainable Transportation event presentation October 4, 2024
- Learn Share Do Fair at Centennial High School February 22, 2025
- 122nd Ave project open house at Parkrose Middle School February 25, 2025
- Powellhurst- Gilbert Neighborhood Association presentation and discussion March 25, 2025
- Cultivate truck driver training event March 14, 2025
- Bike workshop at Midland Library March 28, 2025
- Play Grown Learn Fair at Nadaka Park March 28, 2025
- Oregon Black Resource Network - Formerly know as Living Black Cully event April 19, 2025
- Party in the Park with Safe Blocks at Earl Boyles Park May 29, 2025
- Ethiopian and Eritrean Community Resource Center African Leaders forum June 12, 2025
- Parkrose Summer Nights tabling, June 12, 2025
- Rosewood Initiative Festival tabling June 14, 2025
- East County Juneteenth Celebration at Vance Park June 21, 2025
- Sunflower Neighborhood Fair at Maidan Plaza June 22, 2025
- Guerreras Latinas Safe Systems Training and project briefing July 2, 2025
- People's Market tabling July 13, 2025
- Parkrose Summer Nights tabling July 16, 2025
- Division Midway Alliance Transportation Fair tabling and briefing July 19, 2025
- East Portland Sunday Parkways at Parklane Park tabling July 27, 2025
- Rosewood Initiative leadership briefing July 31, 2025
- Play Grow Learn People's Market tabling August 17, 2025
- Home Forward Goals Program Event at Parkrose High School tabling August 23, 2025
- People's Picnic Parklane Park Tabling, August 24, 2026
- Picnic in the Park at Lents Park tabling August 31, 2025
- Multi-cultural Kids Festival at Ventura Park tabling September 7, 2025
- Mill Park Grand Opening tabling September 23, 2025
- Menlo Park Safe Rest Village Transportation safety education event & briefing with Cultivate October 22, 2025
- East Portland Chamber of Commerce presentation October 15, 2025
- Area Resident mailer sent November 2025 with online survey request
- Door-to-door resident and business canvassing November 2025- February 2026
- Leander Court Holiday Party tabling, December 2, 2025
- Division Midway Alliance Holiday Bazaar Tabling December 6, 2025
- Gilbert Heights Middle School Cookies holiday event December 11, 2025
- David Douglas Transportation office briefing and discussion December 15, 2025
- We Shine Micro Village event tabling, December 17, 2025
- Rose City Self Defense workshop with Safe Blocks at Midland Library December 17, 2025
- Light up the night street team at 122nd and E Burnside St December 31, 2025
- Light up the Night street team at 122nd and SE Stark St January 8, 2026
- Light up the Night with We Shine Micro Village January 14, 2026
- Light up the Night at 122nd and SE Powell Blvd. January 15, 2026
- Light up the Night with Division Midway Alliance at 122nd and SE Division January 27, 2026
- IRCO Slavic and Eastern European Community Center Traffic Safety workshop with Vision Zero team briefing February 12, 2026
- Thrive East PDX presentation and discussion, March 30, 2026
- East Portland community leaders forum, March 31, 2026 Guerreras Latinas