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KNA Seeks Safer Crossing at MLK/Failing

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The King Neighborhood Association has requested that the City of Portland make pedestrian safety a higher priority at Failing Street. A high number of vehicle pedestrian conflicts and an ever-increasing number of residential units in the area spurred the letter. The letter states:

Several near-fatal accidents have occurred at this intersection in recent history, one involving a young mother carrying her child across the street, and an aggressive driver sped up and honked at the pedestrian; another when an elderly gentleman was clipped by a car but fortunately not gravely injured six months ago. The King Neighborhood Association invites you to find a way to help us mitigate the unsafe crossing now in place at this intersection.

The association requests that, at a minimum, a marked crossing be installed. Other, more expensive options include a pedestrian activated signal.

Click here for the full letter..

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.