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MAPS 4 Street Light Project

At a glance

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  • What: MAPS 4 sidewalks, bike lanes, trails and street lights program: a $4 million allocation to fund 10 years of operating costs for roughly 1,000 new street lights on arterial roads.
  • Where it stands: A consultant presented 12 proposed study areas to the board; this was an update with no vote. Staff said power-company costs per light are higher than the early $20 per month estimate, so pole and fixture costs must be kept low to still reach about 1,000 lights.

Details

  • Council's resolution limits the lights to arterial streets. Staff have been consulting city departments on the approach since 2024.
  • Siting factors: arterial streets, known safety concerns, new residential growth where infrastructure has lagged, transit and bike improvements, and known requests through the city's action center.
  • Data used: the planning department's high-impact injury network from the Vision Zero work (crashes where poor lighting was cited), a map of housing growth since 2020, the planned bus rapid transit route, ongoing bike projects and a 2024 nighttime satellite image.
  • Twelve study areas were proposed, including Northwest Expressway, the area north of the Kilpatrick Turnpike near Portland, the Martin Luther King Avenue corridor north of Northwest 23rd Street (northeast end of the bus rapid transit line), Sooner Road and I-240, Western Avenue and Southwest 134th Street, Southwest 59th Street and South May Avenue (southwest end of the line), Grand Boulevard, Southwest 15th Street and Portland, Northwest 10th Street and West Reno, the area north and west of Lake Overholser, and Mustang Road between Yukon and Mustang.
  • Interstates and the state-run portion of Northwest Expressway (State Highway 3) are excluded; the focus is city-controlled streets, in more urbanizing areas rather than rural-lifestyle land use areas.
  • A board member who worked on the Vision Zero plan welcomed the approach and asked about coordination with upcoming streetscape projects. Staff said public works expects the streetscapes (including Northwest 23rd Street) to increase lighting.

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