Last week’s meeting of the Burnside Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) was interesting from a number of points of view. First, the couplet continues to score best on virtually all the criteria. The ‘new’ news at this meeting was that it wins on travel time and on the urban design criteria.

Yesterday afternoon Sam Adams and the consultant team presented the results of the traffic modeling of various alternatives for West Burnside St. from the river to NW 24th to “key stakeholders” (which included some property owners who had never been near the Stakeholder Committee process!). While there are no conclusions, there is some narrowing of…

Burnside project manager Bill Hoffman visited with the NW District Association transportation committee last week at their request to give an update on the Burnside project. As previously reported, the project is now modeling a new set of alternatives. Bill indicated that the results would be communicated at two meetings later this month: July 17th…

Yesterday afternoon Commissioner Sam Adams (by speakerphone, from Washington, DC, where he was lobbying for transportation funds) convened the Burnside Stakeholders Advisory Committee. The purpose of the meeting was to review two alternative options to the couplet design that will be modeled for their traffic impacts. The first alternative is the “5-4-3” option, since it…

Actually it’s 12 minutes. The separation of the east and west sides of the Burnside project continues next week when the Portland Development Commission takes up the issue at their March 22nd meeting. From 8:18 to 8:30am (who schedules these things to the minute?) the Commission will review a report concurring with the City Council…