Portland will expand existing limits on right-on-red turns along some high-crash streets, furthering the city’s effort to reduce traffic deaths.
The plan, unanimously approved last week by the City Council, will begin as a pilot program at 30 intersections identified by the Portland Bureau of Transportation as particularly dangerous.
City officials aim to eventually prohibit right turns across an additional 200 city intersections under the new policy, sponsored by Councilors Tiffany Koyama Lane and Loretta Smith…