Portland Traffic: Another Crackdown As City Aims For Vision Zero

PORTLAND, OR – Traffic deaths continue to be in Portland. As part of their effort to prevent them, Portland Police were back on the street, conducting a Vision Zero traffic safety mission.

They spent four hours on Sandy Boulevard between Northeast 57th Avenue and Northeast 108th Avenue.

In that time, they issued 112 citations, 105 of which went to people caught speeding by photo radar. Get all the latest information on what's happening in your community by signing up for Patch's newsletters and breaking news alerts.

That stretch of Sandy – with bike lanes, bus stops, and crosswalks – is considered by the city a "City of Portland High Crash Corridor." Those corridors are so named because they are the locations of a disproportionate number of pedestrian fatalities.

The Vision Zero program hopes to eliminate all traffic deaths and serious injury crashes on city streets by 2025.

By the city's admission, they still have a long way to go.

Last year was the deadliest on the streets in more than a decade.

In 2017, 45 people were killed on the streets, the most since 2003 when 47 people died. It was also an increase of one over the 44 who died in 2016.

File photo via PBOT.