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The City of Portland, Oregon

Portland Bureau of Transportation

Phone: 503-823-5185

Fax: 503-823-7576

1120 SW Fifth Ave, Suite 1331, Portland, OR 97204

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Special Initiatives


Fixing Our Streets Program

Fixing Our Streets will expand preventive street maintenance that saves money and prevents potholes. It will support work making it safer for children to walk to school and allow us to build more sidewalks, traffic signals, street lights and bike lanes.

Federal Highway Administration experiment with Red Pavement Markings

We are testing to see if adding red on the pavement helps increase driver understanding and compliance in transit priority lanes. PSU will help us collect before and after data and evaluate performance.

Net Meter Revenue Policy Review

Reviewing and updating the City’s 1996 Parking Meter District Policy.

Portland in the Streets Community Grant Program

PBOT is excited to offer a new grant funding opportunity to implement new and creative projects and invites community-based organizations and neighbors throughout the City of Portland to apply.

Historic Black Williams Project

Take a walk on Williams Ave to see and experience an important piece of Portland history.

Livable Streets: A Strategy for Portland

The Livable Streets Strategy will be Portland's roadmap to encouraging and implementing placemaking and community uses in the public right-of-way.

Portland's High Crash Network

More than half of deadly crashes occur on just 8% of Portland's streets.

PBOT Smart Cities

Portland's application to the US Department of Transportation’s Smart Cities Challenge grant to implement Ubiquitous Mobility for Portland (UB Mobile PDX).

Keep Portland Moving: Utility Coordination Scoping Project

The Portland Bureau of Transportation is exploring how to better coordinate right of way work among City agencies and utilities.

High Crash Corridor Program

The High Crash Corridor program uses relatively inexpensive education, enforcement and engineering solutions to address crash problems in a short period of time.