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 [...]

 A vision of peace and tranquility that will be a thing of the past if the ”Friends” and PBOT’s couplet plan succeed in dumping Burnside’s traffic onto Couch… our Better Burnside Alliance reporter is on the streets.  A picture may be worth a thousand words but video says it all… the video links below, filmed during rush hour on 11th and Couch, [...]

Larry Norton’s blog,  An Old Town Perspective, features our site in his blog entry today.  There are some interesting links in the posting which shed a bit of light on the controversy around Mr. Powell’s push for a couplet.  Contrary to what some claim, our sources say he can’t build condo’s above his store because it’s not possible [...]