Comment 81458

By jason (registered) | Posted October 06, 2012 at 19:45:39 in reply to Comment 81456

they aren't 'slow', they function properly. Lights are timed to go red, not green. They use 5 lanes of space for parking, bike lanes and 2 lanes of car travel. They have curb bump-outs so the crosswalks are shorter and cars don't feel like they're on a wide Cannon St, trees are everywhere right at the street edge. Outside of downtown, Portland has a ton of one-ways that also function well as residential/low density retail streets such as:

http://goo.gl/maps/UUhrU

http://goo.gl/maps/nQzko

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