![]() In response to their question, “What step in your directions to was wrong?” I’d flag “Walking wasn’t safe” along most of SW Patton. One day later, I’ve considered using the ‘Report an issue’ crowdsourcing feature in the app to let Apple (TomTom) know what I think. The crossings where I had poor sight visibility were especially unnerving. In a few cases, I had to cross SW Patton from the left side (facing oncoming traffic) to the right side to even find the shoulder. There were several stretches where I could barely find a shoulder to walk on. All went well until I started downhill on SW Patton Rd. On a long walk from NE Portland to SW Portland (Bridlemile), I used Apple’s walking instructions to set my route. Yesterday, I experienced first-hand what you described. This is common on low-speeds zones in Europe and Britain: You put one on every entrance to the greenway. ![]() I think that will be the best option when there is time and funding, it is more noticable than signs, and creates less clutter along streets. ![]() The best longer term solution would be to stencil the 15 mph speed on the street surface, but this also costs around $250 per stensil (if the cost is the same as a sharrow in the document above). This way there will be as sign on most blocks within a few months. So assuming a cost around $10 per yard sign (including delivery), they can get 20 to 25 signs on yard and planting strips, for the cost of one official sign on a pole, and get them out there right away. I found the cost per sign was about $150 to $200 in 2013, so imagine $200 to $250 now: If they wanted to install 15 mph speed signs or “neighborhood greenway” signs on poles instead, it would be much more expensive and slower. This is a great idea for getting started. If you’re one of them, you can request yours here. This free sign program is available only to people to who live on neighborhood greenways. If you want one, you better act fast as she reports they’ve had 287 orders in the first two days of the campaign. Schafer said they’ve printed 1,000 signs, 500 of each design. PBOT Interim Communications Director Hannah Schafer says, “Our goal is raise awareness among people traveling and living along greenways that they are great streets for walking, biking and rolling.” Funding for the signs comes from the Slow Streets program. PBOT says they hope this latest effort helps raise awareness about the 15 mph advisory speed limit and other traffic calming installations they’ve recently installed on greenways. In passive-aggressive Portland, anonymously planting a sign in the grass that tells other people how they should act is the perfect way for many people to exercise their activism muscles. And who remembers last April when local artist Mike Bennett created a variety of “Slow Down” yard signs and could barely keep up with demand? In 2018 they could hardly keep “20 is Plenty” signs in stock as folks were eager for anything that might help deter speeders from their streets. This isn’t the first time PBOT has sought to use private front yard real estate to hammer home a traffic safety message.
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