PBOTch Watch!
- Jim Stewart
- Jan 5, 2020
- 1 min read
January 5, 2020
The modest social engineering project of halving the vehicle capacity of Northeast Glisan Street from 122nd to 162nd Avenues inches toward completion.
More than four months late.
And counting.
Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) on its official website originally slated this project's completion for the end of August of 2019 (later changing the date to an equally optimistic end of November of 2019).
It is now 2020 and finally, this past first week of January, PBOT started but did not finish installing the demand full-stop lights and poles and pushbuttons at the new pedestrian and double-bicycle crosswalk at Northeast 129th Avenue on Glisan (pictured).
So that, while the double bicycle lanes of the eastside's north-south bicycle corridor and the pedestrian crosswalk in front of Menlo Park Elementary remain closed to date, these recent and long-overdue PBOT efforts may soon wreak further full-stop havoc for vehicles on yet another diminished Northeast Portland neighborhood.
[Author/editor supplemental note: the ped/bike crosswalk lights evidently are inoperative. Or at least they are taped off so that it looks like they are inoperative. And pedestrians continue to walk across the overhead bridge to school. PBOT, we await your showing us evidence of "[our] dime at work."]
[Author/Editor's note: Early this morning, PBOT unshuttered the full-stop demand lights at Northeast 129th Avenue and Glisan Street. I do not know whether the pedestrian/double bicycle crosswalk is operative. But it is unmasked. (I would never activate the full-stop demand light--thus stopping traffic--without good reason.)