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Beaverton unveils proactive traffic-calming program: temporary measures, new prioritization and equity scoring
Summary
City staff proposed an update to Beaverton’s traffic-calming program that shifts to a proactive, staff-led prioritization, adds equity and transit proximity to scoring, and uses temporary measures first to shorten implementation time and allow iterative adjustment.
Beaverton staff presented a proposed update to the city’s traffic-calming program in a June 3 work session, aiming to shorten project timelines, increase equity-based prioritization and deploy temporary traffic-calming devices before constructing permanent measures.
Under the proposed approach, staff will identify all streets eligible for traffic calming — local streets, neighborhood routes and two-lane collectors — score them using an expanded eight-criteria rubric, and proactively notify neighborhoods of where their street ranks. New criteria include an equity index (seven Census-derived…
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