The Burnside Couch Couplet Plan for altering Burnside is finally dead, paving the way for intelligent and economical improvements.  Yesterday’s article in the Oregonian isn’t objective journalism; it fails to acknowledge or credit all the businesses, architects, schools, urban planners and non-Henry resident petition signers, and presents this victory as something to regret, citing NIMBY [...]

Excerpts from ”Europe Stifles Drivers in Favor of Alternatives” a recent article in NY Times…
“As he stood watching a few cars inch through a mass of bicycles and pedestrians, Zurich’s chief traffic planner, Andy Fellmann, smiled. “Driving is a stop-and-go experience,” he said. “That’s what we like! Our goal is to reconquer public space for pedestrians, not [...]

I would like to extend my very strong support to the Better Burnside Alliance in their efforts to stop the West Burnside-Couch Couplet.
While I’m sure there are many well intentioned individuals who think the project is a positive step forward, as a community activist in East Portland who faces multiple transportation and connectivity issues, I [...]

NW Couch Street would cease to be the ideal street party venue it currently is should the West Burnside Couch Couplet Proposal be allowed to proceed as planned by Portland Bureau of Transportation.  Changing Burnside and Couch into one-way streets, with NW Couch becoming the major thoroughfare that Burnside currently is, would destroy the sense of [...]

Roberta Gratz, award-winning journalist and urban critic, lecturer and author of three books is asked her opinion about the City of Portland’s plans to change Burnside and NW Couch from two-way to one-way streets (aka “a couplet”).  This two minute audio link was recorded Wednesday night at the Lab of Museum of Contemporary Craft at an event sponsored by the [...]