- Arbor Lodge Road Safety Meeting!
- Sunday 5/22 at 9am at the Kenton Firehouse
- all are welcome, and I promise there will be coffee
- neighborhood safety
- Arbor Lodge park is a major center of life for all ages
- Chief Joseph means there are a lot of kids walking and riding
- Harper's playground means there are A LOT of kids walking and riding
- our streets should be safe for all ages
- 10 people died while walking
- 2 people died while riding a bike
- source is PBOT 2015 traffic safety report
- I could not find official information, so I browsed through Portland Police Bureau press releases, and scanned a couple local news websites
- at least 5 people walking have been killed
- I don't have all their ages and genders, but at least:
- 84 year old woman
- 34 year old woman
- 58 year old man
- 10 year old boy
- I don't have all their ages and genders, but at least:
- at least 10 people walking have been serious injured
- this includes our neighbor, Brian
- 2 people died while riding bikes
- 17 year old boy
- 9 year old boy
- 4/1 portland police announce additional traffic patrols. They count 12 fatal crashes this year, up from 7 at the same time in 2015.
- you can see what I found here
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consider ways we can improve safety
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encourage safer driving by design
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"A person is 25 times more likely to be killed on a Portland road posted at 35 MPH or higher compared to a road posted at 25 MPH or slower" [PBOT 2015 safety report](https://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/article/563991)
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encourage safer driving by increased enforcement
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gathering data on what's really happening at Rosa Parks and Delaware
- the city does not have traffic counts at Rosa Parks and Delaware
- the city has posted a speed limit of 35, but how fast are people really driving?