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Vision Zero action plan to target neighborhood danger spots.

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From Vision Zero:

The Stakeholder Advisory Committee (StAC) for Vision Zero Oregon’s King/Humboldt/Boise’s Roadway Safety Action Plan will begin looking at neighborhood road problems. These problems were collected through stakeholder interviews, a public survey, and a March 2011 community walking tour. The Vision Zero project will use the perspectives and expertise from the StAC to make a plan to increase road safety in the King, Humboldt, and Boise neighborhoods. This project will look at ways to reach “Vision Zero;” a vision of roads that don’t have any deaths or injuries for people walking, biking, or driving.

Both StAC meetings are open to the general public. Pizza and refreshments will be provided.

Wednesday, March 23
5:30pm – 7:00pm
Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs
(Amelia Room, 4134 N. Vancouver Avenue)

Wednesday, April 20
5:30pm – 7:00pm
Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs
(Amelia Room, 4134 N. Vancouver Avenue)
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Vision Zero Traffic Safety Meeting

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From Vision Zero:

Please join us for our first Stakeholder Advisory Committee meeting on March 23.

We are inviting anyone and everyone to join us in identifying safety hazards in the King, Boise, and Humboldt neighborhoods and work towards developing a range of solutions that citizens can pursue. During the meeting we’ll briefly introduce the project and summarize our current findings in the neighborhood. After that we’ll break into small group with you the public to discuss more specific unsafe locations and behaviors.

When: Wednesday, March 23 – 5:30pm – 7:00pm

Where: Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs (Amelia Room, 4134 N. Vancouver Avenue)

Details: Please arrive by 5:30 to promptly get started. We’ll provide delicious refreshments.

If you have questions about the Stakeholder Committee or the project in general, please feel free to contact the Public Outreach Coordinator, Michelle van Tijen (503-893-8777) or (michelle@visionzerooregon.org).

Bikes and Culture

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I stumbled on this link to an interesting article on the resurgence of the bicycle, bike culture and how it intersects with race. We live in a very diverse neighborhood in a city that tirelessly touts itself as the bicycle paradise. It would be great to see this environmental, economical, healthy, adaptable transportation form embraced in continually more creative ways.

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/12470499]

Road Safety Walking Tour March 5th, Survey Online

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King Neighborhood is partnering with the Vision Zero Oregon Portland State University Masters Workshop project. Vision Zero looks forward to working with King and having the input and expertise of the King Neighborhood Association guide Portland neighborhoods towards zero roadway deaths. Here’s how to get involved with the project:

1) Walking Tour:

Please join us to help identify road safety problem areas and talk about solutions that will make it safer and easier for everyone to get around the King, Boise, and Humboldt neighborhoods.
When: Saturday, March 5 – 10:00-11:00am
Where: The tour begins at 10:00am at Reflections Coffee and Books, 446 NE Killingsworth Street (just east of MLK Blvd)
Details: No need to RSVP, just show up ready to walk and talk, rain or shine. We will meet at Reflections Coffee and Books before and after the walking tour.

2) Online Survey:

We want to know what you think about road safety and how it can be improved. Please take 10 minutes to fill out our survey and let us know what concerns you in the King, Boise, and Humboldt neighborhoods. It will help us better understand the road safety issues in your neighborhood and you can enter to win $15! Deadline is March 21, 2011.

Survey: http://portlandstate.qualtrics.com//SE/?SID=SV_e5KB4cERJ5nS3g8
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Feel free to contact Michelle van Tijen of Vision Zero anytime with questions and ideas about how you want to get involved! Thank you for taking the survey and we hope to see you on Saturday (with umbrellas and walking shoes)!

Traffic Safety Initiative to Target King

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Vision Zero Oregon has chosen King as one of the neighborhoods they want to work with this spring to educate people on how to pursue roadway safety strategies.

From their website, www.visionzerooregon.org

We are a group of five Portland State University Masters of Urban and Regional Planning students working with the Bicycle Transportation Alliance to develop new community-based strategies to improve roadway safety. Through June 2011 we’ll be assembling a toolkit of tactics and working with a specific neighborhoods to build up the capacity of people in that community to pursue roadway safety on their own. The project is really about finding ways to get all the relevant groups together to work towards making streets safer for users of all types of transportation, from people who drive to people who walk to people who roll. Whether you’re a traffic engineer, a safety advocate, a neighborhood resident, or just a user of Portland’s streets, we want you involved.

We are planning a walking tour and an existing conditions survey to hear from King residents their experiences and thoughts about roadway safety in their neighborhood. I hope that anyone from the neighborhood association (and the neighborhood!) can attend and help get the word out.