Forest Avenue redesign

Strongly supported the plan, urging a lower speed limit, speed enforcement, and a ban on right-on-red to make pedestrian beacons effective.

Asked for more handicap parking spaces citywide and urged education of cyclists who run red lights.

Lives off Forest Avenue, strongly endorsed the plan as a life-saver, but wants 10-foot lanes under NACTO specs and questioned whether the speed limit would drop to 25 mph.

Urged 20 mph design speeds and planting mature trees in center turn lanes to slow traffic and build canopy.

A Forest Avenue business owner said one recorded fatality was a mental-health crisis and cautioned against slowing traffic too much.

Supported the project but argued concrete infrastructure beats flashing beacons and urged fully separated bike lanes.

An experienced cyclist and father who avoids Forest Avenue with his son; supports the road diet and wants protected bike lanes and 10-foot lanes.

East Bayside parent strongly in favor; called the four-lane design a discredited relic and urged the same treatment for Franklin Street.

Portland Trails praised the quick, cheap demonstration approach and pitched rumble strips along bike lane buffers.