With a push from UO students, city plans fast-tracked safety redesign on Patterson Street

One day in mid-June, Hannah Norris was stressed.

The University of Oregon student was about to present a proposed redesign of a five-block stretch of Patterson Street, from 19th to 24th avenues, to city transportation planners and community partners at a downtown Public Works office.

Over the past month, she and other students with Live Move, a UO sustainable transportation group, had been designing safety improvements for the corridor — a one-way street with two southbound driving lanes — using digital modeling tools…

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