Traffic & Transit
Marine Drive Speeders Will Again Be Ticketing Starting Wednesday
After Portland lowered the speed limit to 35 from 40 on a stretch of Marine Drive drivers were given a grace period. It's over.
PORTLAND, OR – Drivers on Marine Drive have had their period of adjustment. Starting Wednesday, all drivers caught going faster than 35 mph will be ticketed. For the past two weeks, they've had a grace period in which they were given warnings.
The speed limit had been 40 mph.
Marine Drive is one of the 30 streets in the city's High Crash Network – the 8 percent of city streets that account for 57 percent of the fatal crashes in Portland. Get all the latest information on what's happening in your community by signing up for Patch's newsletters and breaking news alerts
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The speed limits affects a two-mile stretch of Marine Drive from I5 to Northeast 33rd Drive.
Portland Bureau of Transportation officials announced on Sept. 25 that the speed limit would be lowered.
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Officials say that from 2012 through 2016, there were 140 crashes on this segment of Marine Drive.
As part of the safety enforcement on the stretch, PBOT installed two speed cameras – one westbound at Northeast 138th and one eastbound by Northeast 33rd Avenue.
Map via PBOT.
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