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PBOT News Release: PBOT extends Healthy Businesses, Portland Public Street Plazas programs to help Portlanders continue to embrace public space after the COVID-19 pandemic

In the early days of the pandemic, PBOT created two new programs that provided critical, urgently needed outdoor space for business use and community gatherings. Operation in the streets beyond this summer is contingent on City Council funding in the upcoming 2022-23 budget.

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The Cart Blocks Comeback

Portlanders enjoyed food and downtown outdoor gathering space at The Cart Blocks on opening day on July 24. The relocation to a new site downtown wasn't easy - for the food cart owners or the city officials who helped create the new site. 

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PBOT’s Healthy Businesses permit program to continue waiving fees through June 2022

Good news for small business owners and their customers! Thanks to Portland City Council and the American Rescue Plan, permits through the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s (PBOT) Healthy Businesses program will continue to be FREE through June 30, 2022.

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A view of Healthy Businesses located on North Lombard Street in the heart of St. Johns.

PBOT’s Slow Streets program moves ahead with permanent installations in response to positive community support

The familiar green signs and orange temporary traffic barrels are evolving to concrete planters and shared street signage to better maintain calm streets and slow traffic on many of Portland’s neighborhood greenways

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A new concrete planter with 15 mph advisory speed signs at SE 12th Avenue and Salmon Street helps calm traffic on the popular neighborhood greenway. Photo by Scott Cohen, Portland Bureau of Transportation.

PBOT now accepting applications for Healthy Blocks and Street Paintings for summer 2021

Applications for both programs open today with permits to be issued beginning June 1 and onward.

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Safe Streets Healthy Blocks web banner

News Blog: Atlas Pizza bounces back with PBOT's Healthy Businesses Permit

Atlas itself “wouldn’t have survived” without the ability to serve pizza outside on Foster, with the help of a Healthy Businesses Permit from the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT).

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News Release: Street Plazas come to life on N Denver Avenue and SE Clinton Street as part of PBOT’s Healthy Businesses Permit Program

New street plazas are popping up in Portland this month as part of the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s (PBOT) Healthy Businesses permit program, which allows for temporary changes to streets to give people more space to conduct business safely during the Covid-19 public health crisis

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PBOT COVID-19 Frontline Communities Partnership

The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has launched a new initiative called Safe Streets to respond to the Covid-19 public health crisis. The program will make temporary changes to city streets and sidewalks to support physical distancing in public spaces and other critical travel needs.

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News Blog: Stay local this Memorial Day weekend and explore the City of Roses by bike

Ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, PBOT reminds you to enjoy the outdoors - safely.

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