Posted in Bridge, SMILE, Transportation on Oct 5th, 2010
The following press release was distributed to the media on Monday, October 4, 2010
From residents of the Sellwood-Moreland neighborhood
Sellwood-Moreland Neighborhood Seeks Intragovernmental Agreement with City of Portland and Multnomah County on Sellwood Bridge Project
Portland, Oregon, October 4, 2010: Residents in the Sellwood-Moreland neighborhood request a good-faith negotiation session between SMILE board members, Mayor Adams, [...]
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Posted in SMILE, Transportation on Jun 7th, 2009
Summary: The SMILE Transportation Committee met and discussed a general overview of Transportation issues in the neighborhood. Two issues that came up multiple times were pedestrian and bike crossing safety and giving people entering the neighborhood a sense that they’d just passed through a gateway. In an effort to start with an approachable project that [...]
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Posted in Transportation on Apr 23rd, 2009
We learned this week that TriMet has decided to discontinue Bus 41 which provides rush hour service between Sellwood and downtown Portland. This change will take effect in September, 2009. Despite a strong effort to save the bus line — a formal letter from SMILE, emails from riders, meetings with TriMet officials, testimony at public [...]
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Posted in Events, Transportation on Apr 1st, 2009
Tri-Met has proposed service cuts to our area. The lines affected are #70, #19 Wooodstock, and #41. The big one is #41 which they propose to discontinue completely. For more information about Tri-Met’s proposal click here. There are three public hearings coming up on April 6, 7 & 8 to discuss the proposal. The locations and times [...]
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