Project-Details

• Vehicles and freight: Traffic will still flow in both directions during construction, with occasional lane closures and delays. Later this spring, crews will reduce and shift vehicle lanes to make room for construction activities.
• Biking: Share the lane with vehicles, walk bikes along sidewalks, or use a neighborhood greenway such as North Bryant Street. Bike lanes will open at project completion.
• Walking, rolling and accessing transit: There may be guided detour paths near corners as accessible ramps are installed.

This project will build safety and travel-time predictability improvements for people walking, biking, rolling, taking transit, driving, and moving freight along North Lombard Street between North Fiske Avenue and North Boston Avenue. This will be accomplished by reducing travel lanes to one lane in each direction and adding a center turn lane, buffered bike lanes, pedestrian-activated crossings, updated traffic signals, curb ramps that meet Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements, and wider vehicle lanes for this designated freight route. North Lombard will also be repaved in summer 2022, between North Newman Avenue to North Boston Avenue.

North Lombard Street/U.S. 30 Bypass is the 11th highest crash corridor in the city of Portland based on the frequency of both fatal and serious, near-fatal crashes for all types of road users.

ODOT is designing and constructing the project. The Portland Bureau of Transportation is designing and constructing traffic signal and ADA curb ramp improvements at the intersection of North Lombard Street/U.S. 30 Bypass and North Fenwick Avenue.