Bicycle and pedestrian advocates gathered at Portland City Hall on Wednesday night to support a lofty and as-yet-unattained pledge to finally put an end to traffic deaths in the city.
The city has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Vision Zero in the decade since City Council first made this zero-deaths goal, yet traffic deaths have largely continued to rise.
But as another generation of Portland City Council leaders made assurances to end these deaths, one of the city’s main tools to crack down on traffic fatalities was offline…