Northwest District Association

Transportation Comm. Workplan

NWDA Transportation Committee Workplan

Approved by NWDA Board on December 7, 1998

1. Monitor transportation projects in the neighborhood and influence for maximum benefit to the neighborhood. Keep city accountable for reporting results of projects.
   
   
   
   1. Track implementation of final components of NW Bikeways Plan
      
   2. Central City Streetcar
      
   3. Mitigation of impacts of Lovejoy Ramp closure
      
   4. Intersections II project
      
   
   
2. Advocate for alternatives to single occupancy vehicle use in the neighborhood to increase air quality, increase pedestrian safety, reduce noise and reduce congestion.
   
   
   
   
   1. Promote Carsharing Portland, Inc. and similar efforts
      
   2. Cooperate with neighborhood employers to advocate carpools
      
   3. Seek improved transit service (see Tri-met below)
      
   4. Make the neighborhood friendlier to cyclists, pedestrians and non-auto-owners
      
   5. Educate the public
      
   6. Protect neighborhood streets from being used as alternate paths through the neighborhood by traffic that should be going around the neighborhood as the city's arterial network becomes more congested.
      
   7. Advocate/educate/coordinate to reduce the neighborhood's overall dependence on motor vehicle traffic. Encourage alternate modes of transportation by neighbors and visitors, attempt to consolidate trips by service companies into the neighborhoods (e.g., garbage haulers). Sustain the neighborhood's vitality with a lower level of traffic.
      
   
   
3. Seek significantly enhanced transit service
   
   
   
   1. Lobby Tri-met and other transportation agency to produce a comprehensive transit service plan for the neighborhood to be implemented before or in conjunction with the opening of the Central City Streetcar.
      
   2. Seek transportation service, including a loop shuttle, in the Civic Stadium/21st/Thurman/23rd zone sufficient (5-8min frequency) that schedules are unnecessary and visitors and residents will rely on transit as a preferred method of moving into and around the neighborhood.
      
   3. Encourage efforts to make Tri-met service free to riders
      
   
   
4. Create a subarea-focused system for identifying transportation issues and assessing impact of planned projects. Recruit 'area experts' for each area. Potential key areas include:
   
   
   
   1. Upper Thurman
      
   2. Northern edge (24th/25th/Thurman/Vaughn)
      
   3. Everett/Glisan corridor (track potential city capital project opportunity)
      
   4. Burnside edge
      
   
   
5. Coordinate with other NWDA committees and other neighborhood groups to further transportation goals
   
   
   
   1. Work with Public Safety to increase enforcement of speed and safety violations (e.g., crosswalk enforcement!) and assign full-time bike patrols to the neighborhood
      
   2. Monitor progress of Policy Plan
      
   3. Monitor/liaise with Stadium Working Group
      
   4. Liaise with NHBA
      
   5. Liaise with Central Precinct Public Safety Committee
      
   
   
6. Parking
   
   
   
   1. Monitor activities of Capps Phase II process and recommend actions to the board if necessary to further transportation and pedestrian safety goals in this process.
      
   2. Represent NWDA in the Legacy Administration Group